Robert Schulmann

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Robert J. Schulmann (born March 8, 1942 in the Philippines ) is an American historian , who became known for his work on Albert Einstein .

Schulmann's parents came from Munich . After the Second World War he moved to the USA . He studied history and received his doctorate at the University of Chicago in 1973 (Tradition and reform: accommodation to change in the ecclesiastical principality of Mainz, 1743–1792) and was assistant professor of history at Boston University in the early 1990s , later he was an associate Professor and Director of the Einstein Paper Project.

In 1981 Schulmann came across the Einstein Papers Project . In the mid-1980s, during conversations in the house of the Zurich physicist Res Jost , Schulmann learned by chance that the love letters that Einstein and his future wife Mileva Maric had written between 1897 and 1903 still existed. He managed to locate 54 letters from the time. They are regarded as the showpiece of the first volume of Einstein's collected writings, which appeared in 1987 and which illuminate Einstein's early years from 1879 to 1902.

Schulmann is currently considered to be one of the most successful researchers into previously unknown manuscripts and letters from Einstein ( Einstein-Jäger ).

He also dealt with the correspondence from Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben .

Fonts

  • Editor with Jürgen Renn : Albert Einstein / Mileva Maric: The Love Letters, Princeton University Press 1992
    • German edition: I kiss you verbally on Sunday. The love letters 1897–1903 / Albert Einstein, Mileva Marić. Piper, Munich 1994
  • Editor with David E. Rowe : Einstein on politics: his private thoughts and public stands on nationalism, Zionism, war, peace, and the bomb, Princeton University Press 2007
  • Editor: Soul mates: The correspondence between Albert Einstein and Heinrich Zangger (1910–1947), Verlag Neue Zürcher Zeitung 2012
  • Associate Editor of the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Princeton University Press

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Worldcat
  2. ^ Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 3
  3. ^ Entry in Boyer, Dubovsky Oxford Companion to United States History , 2001
  4. ↑ Publisher Edith of Zemenszky: The papers of General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, 1777-1794, Kraus International Publ 1984th
personal data
SURNAME Schulmann, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulmann, Robert J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Philippines