Eduard Einstein

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Eduard Einstein (born July 28, 1910 in Zurich ; † October 25, 1965 ibid) was Albert Einstein's second son and his wife Mileva Marić .

Eduard Einstein, called “Tete” by his father, was a sensitive, poetically and musically gifted child. Like his brother Hans Albert , Eduard also suffered from the separation of his parents, after which the brothers grew up with their mother in Switzerland. Eduard was a good and popular student. It is a widespread misconception that he had no contact with his father for the first five years after the separation in June 1914. Even in the 1920s, the relationship with his father was no more problematic than that between pubescent sons and their fathers. Edward's relationship with his mother was close throughout his life, even if by no means unclouded.

Literary works

The traditional poetry of Eduard Einstein, some of which could already be read in school newspapers during his lifetime, often shows satirical traits like those of his father. Eduard Einstein's poetic mentality studies of teachers and classmates not only have a socially critical dimension, which shows the fragility of the bourgeois idyll in German-speaking Switzerland , but also speak of an existential horror about the high degree of insensitivity and absurdity that is and is present in the world yourself u. a. in modern bourgeois life. Some of Eduard Einstein's character studies refer to the same teachers who his classmate at the Zurich Cantonal School, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Elias Canetti , portrayed in his novel biography The Saved Tongue (1977). One of the most important addressees of Eduard Einstein's aphorisms, which u. a. referring to Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, his father, who also gave him feedback on his texts, advised him against a literary career.

illness

In October 1932 Eduard was hospitalized for the first time in the Burghölzli psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he was diagnosed as schizophrenic in January 1933 . For Albert Einstein, his son's illness was primarily of genetic origin and was rooted in the family of Edward's mother. The fact that he broke off contact with his son after a last visit to the clinic again belongs to the realm of legends; in fact, however, the correspondence between the withdrawn son and the American father is thinning. In total, Eduard Einstein spent almost 14 years in Burghölzli, including several periods of several months between 1942 and the death of his mother in 1948, but especially the last eight years before his death in autumn 1965. Albert Einstein was his name between 1952 and his own accidental death in 1962 -Biographer Carl Seelig , who u. a. also took care of Robert Walser , with the consent of the father as a mentor.

swell

Apart from the correspondence in the previously published volumes of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein , which cover the years up to 1923, the correct information on the above text can be found in: Franziska Rogger : Einstein's sister, Zurich 2005, p. 124 (first consignment to Burghölzli) ; Alexis Schwarzenbach: The scorned genius, Munich 2005, p. 188 (last posting to Burghölzli); Hans Albert Einstein: His Life as a Pioneering Engineer, by Robert Ettema and Cornelia F. Mutel, ASCE Press 2014 (throughout).

literature

annotation

  1. ↑ His maternal grandmother gave him the nickname 'Dete' (Serbian: child ), which his older brother did not pronounce correctly

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 8, 9, 10 - these volumes contain the correspondence between father and children.
  2. ↑ Highfield and Carter: The Secret Lives of Albert Einstein. dtv 1996, p. 308.
  3. ^ A b Norman P. Franke, The horrors of the Idylle. To Eduard Einstein's poetry. With a few sideways glances at colleagues Elias Canetti and Max Frisch. In: Wirkendes Wort 60, 3/10, pp. 439–466.

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personal data
SURNAME Einstein, Eduard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss son Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Marić
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1965
Place of death Zurich