Maurice Solovine

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Habicht, Solovine, Einstein (1903, from left)
Advertisement for Einstein as a tutor (1902)
La Mettrie: L'homme machine , edition prepared by Solovine (1921)
Dear Solo! , Einstein's letter with the "signature" of four-year-old Hans Albert Einstein (1908)

Maurice Solovine (born May 21, 1875 in Curorani , Romania ; died February 13, 1958 in Paris ) was a Romanian-French philosopher and translator .

Life

Maurice Solovine came from Romania, but little is known about his life at this time. In 1900 he came to Bern to study philosophy . Albert Einstein , who started his first job at the Swiss Patent Office there in 1902 , looked for tutoring students in a classified ad that Solovine responded to. Instead of class, it became the first of many philosophical conversations, and a friendship grew out of it, Einstein called him Solo . The two also invited the math student Conrad Habicht to their regular meetings . Solovine and Habicht became witnesses to Einstein's marriage in 1903 . They jokingly called their evening get-togethers our Academy ; it went down in history as the Olympia Academy . At times, Einstein's colleague Michele Besso also joined the group, and Einstein's fellow student Marcel Grossmann in Zurich was a corresponding member . They read works by Pearson , Mach , Poincaré , Mill , Hume , but also fiction such as Don Quixote . After completing his doctorate in 1904, Habicht got a job as a teacher in Schiers and was replaced in the Bernese district by his brother Paul Habicht. From November 1905, Solovine continued his studies in Lyon . He then moved to Paris, where between 1908 and 1919 he contributed to the publication of the Revue philosophique . Einstein met him in Paris in March 1913, when he was invited to Paris for the annual meeting of the Société française de physique . They first met in 1922 after the First World War. Solovine had already translated Einstein's 1921 Princeton lectures into French, but they had not yet appeared in print. Einstein gave his lectures in French at the Collège de France , which was not easy for him. At Einstein's request, they took Paul Langevin and Charles Nordmann on a private drive to the war graves of the World War.

In Paris, Solovine worked as a freelance translator and editor of classical texts from the history of European philosophy and contemporary mathematicians. He had a lifelong correspondence with Einstein and gradually translated his writings into French. When Habicht and Solovine met in Paris in 1953 and Einstein sent a postcard to Princeton, Einstein responded with a humorous eulogy to the Olympia Academy. He edited Einstein's letters to him after his death in 1956. He also translated articles on the theory of relativity by Hans Thirring and Moritz Schlick .

Fonts (selection)

Einstein's letters to Solovine

  • Friendship with Albert Einstein . In: Physical sheets . 15 (1959), 3, pp. 97-103
  • Albert Einstein. Letters to Maurice Solovine: facsimile reproduction of letters from the years 1906 to 1955, with French translation and three photographs (= Lettres à Maurice Solovine: reproduites en facsimilé et traduites en français avec une introduction et trois photographies . Introduction Maurice Solovine.) Gauthier -Villars, Paris 1956.

Translations of Einstein's writings

  • Albert Einstein: L'éther et la theory de la relativité . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1921 (new edition 1953)
  • Albert Einstein: La géométrie et l'expérience . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1921
  • Albert Einstein: La Théorie de la relativité restreinte et généralisée, exposé élémentaire. La relativité et leproblemème de l'espace . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1923 (new edition 1954)
  • Albert Einstein: Sur l'électrodynamique des corps en mouvement . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1925 (new edition 1955)
  • Albert Einstein: Les fondements de la théorie de la relativité générale (1916). Albert Einstein with Walther Mayer : Théorie unitaire de la gravitation et de l'électricité (1931). Albert Einstein Sur la structure cosmologique de l'espace . Translations Maurice Solovine. Hermann, Paris 1933
  • Albert Einstein: Sur leprobleme cosmologique. Théorie de la gravitation généralisée . Translation from English Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1951
  • Albert Einstein: Quatre conférences sur la theory de la relativité faites à l'université de Princeton . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1955
  • Albert Einstein: Comment je vois le monde . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Flammarion, Paris 1958

Editions and translations

  • Peter Chalmers Mitchell : Translation Maurice Solovine. Foreword by Émile Boutroux . F. Alcan, Paris 1916
  • Pensées philosophiques . Selection and translation Maurice Solovine, foreword Anatole France . 1918
  • Les Maîtres de la pensée scientifique. Collection de mémoires publiées par les soins de M. Solovine . Paris, 1920
  • Julien Offray de La Mettrie : L'homme machine suivi de L'art de jouir . Introduction and notes from Maurice Solovine. Bossard, Paris 1921
    • Claudia Beckern (ed.): Julien Offray de La Mettrie: L'homme machine: French-German = The human machine . Philosophical Library, 1990
  • JJ Thomson : Electricity et matière . Preface by Paul Langevin, translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1922
  • Hans Thirring : L'idée de la théorie de la relativité . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1923
  • Epicurus : Doctrines et maximes . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Alcan, Paris 1925
    • Epicure et les epicuriens . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Text selection Jean Brun . Presses Universitaires de France, 2004
  • Federigo Enriques : Questions relatives aux mathématiques élémentaires / point. ligne, surface . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1927
  • Democritus : Doctrines philosophiques et réflexions morales . Translation and introduction by Maurice Solovine. Alcan, Paris 1928
  • Moritz Schlick : Espace et temps dans la physique contemporaine: introduction à la théorie de la relativité et de la gravitation . Translation by Maurice Solovine. Gauthier-Villars, Paris 1929.
  • Héraclite d'Ephèse: doctrines philosophiques traduites intégralement et précédées d'une introduction , par Maurice Solovine. F. Alcan, Paris 1931

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b John Stachel (Ed.): The collected papers of Albert Einstein. 5. The Swiss years: correspondence, 1902-1914 , 1993, pp. 641f.
  2. ↑ on the following see Jürgen Neffe: Einstein. A biography . 2006, pp. 133-137
  3. ^ Thomas Franz Schneider: Habicht, Conrad. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  4. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, pp. 118f.
  5. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, p. 127
  6. ↑ We jokingly called our evening meetings our academy (Solovine, in: Physikalische Blätter, 1959, p. 101)
  7. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, p. 369
  8. ↑ Lewis Samuel Feuer: Einstein et le conflit des générations . Translation into French by Paul Alexandre. Foreword by Serge Moscovici . Ed. Complexe, Brussels 1974, ISBN 2-87027-023-2 , pp. 85-94, here p. 87
  9. ↑ Michel Biezunski: Einstein à Paris: le temps n'est plus… Pr. Univ. de Vincennes, Saint-Denis 1991, ISBN 2-903981-74-4
  10. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, p. 593
  11. ↑ Jürgen Neffe: Einstein. A biography . 2006, p. 302
  12. ^ Siegfried Grundmann: Einstein's files: Einstein's years in Germany from the perspective of German politics . Springer, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-540-63197-6 , pp. 205ff.
  13. ^ Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, p. 594
  14. ^ Text by Albrecht Fölsing: Albert Einstein. A biography . 1993, p. 137
personal data
SURNAME Solovine, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian-French philosopher and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Curorani, Romania
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 1958
Place of death Paris