During Albert Einstein's lifetime, those who did not know him personally believed that the physicist was passionate only about science and led a good lifestyle.
However, the author of the famous theory of relativity believed that marriage was contrary to human nature. The concept of “loyalty” did not exist for him at all. He slept with his wife's daughter, seduced the spouses of his colleagues, without recognizing any moral standards.
Mileva Maric's height was not successful. And she didn’t show her face. In addition, she also limped. “What did he see in her?” - Einstein's friends were perplexed. And they are quite understandable: after all, 24-year-old Albert was simply handsome. And he never looked for women! His next love was the one who happened to be nearby. In the polytechnic school where the genius studied, there were no girls except Mileva. So he took as his wife the one who came to hand. In addition, this Serbian woman was excellent at mathematics.
He lived with Mileva for several years before their official marriage, but the poor thing even then had to share him with other women. One of them is Marie Winteler, the daughter of a teacher of ancient Greek language and history at the cantonal school of Aarau, where Albert studied in 1895. Having started living with Mileva, Einstein continued to give his things to Marie to wash - out of habit. The physicist wrote passionate poems to each of his ladies. This is what he did until old age - he began to conquer women's hearts with a lyrical dedication.
Maric gave birth to the scientist a daughter and two sons - Eduard and Hans Albert. Einstein was a good father to them, but this did not stop him from divorcing her after 16 years of marriage. Mileva filed for divorce - unable to bear her husband’s constant infidelities. He did not let a single woman pass by who happened to be nearby.
The outstanding physicist loved to embarrass his servants by leaving his robe unwrapped when leaving the bath. He was sunbathing in the courtyard of his own house without panties, covering only his shoulders. And when he saw a lady passing by, he jumped up and, not at all embarrassed by his nakedness, began to greet her.
How could Mileva tolerate such a rake? In addition, he also beat her.
Einstein's second wife is his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. She was three years older than Albert and had two daughters from her first marriage - the eldest Ilsa and the younger Margot. But at first the physicist planned to marry not his cousin Elsa, but her eldest daughter Ilse. He felt an irresistible sexual craving for her.
A letter from Ilza to a friend has been preserved, where she tells how once Albert, already a stepfather, confessed his love to her, asked her to marry him and promised to break off his relationship with her mother. But Ilsa refused.
At first, Elsa tried to keep her husband from cheating. She even hid money from him so that he could not take his mistresses to restaurants. But the ladies paid for it themselves! Einstein's theory of relativity caused a worldwide sensation. Fame added to his attractiveness. All the women, when they saw Einstein, had an inexplicable passion for science, and each of them asked him to present his theory to her personally.
Realizing that nothing could be done, Elsa resigned herself. He brought his mistresses home for the night, and she went to bed alone without scandals. But more than that, she also served him coffee in the morning. She left him at a country house in Kaputa, supposedly going shopping, so that he could enjoy freedom. The scientist hired one of his mistresses as his secretary at the University of Berlin. Elsa presented her husband with an ultimatum: if he cannot do without this passion, then she will allow him to satisfy the “dog instinct” twice a week. But in return she demanded: let the mistress be the only one. But where is it?
They gossiped that Albert slept not only in the bed of Elsa and Ilsa, but also of Margot, his wife’s youngest daughter. After the death of her older sister and mother, the latter in 1936, she divorced her husband and lived under the same roof with Einstein. She accompanied him on foreign tours and attended dinner parties. Although it is known that at the same time, Albert often satisfied his sexual desire by visiting prostitutes.
“I recently dreamed that Margot got married,” Einstein wrote to Elsa. “I love her as much as if she were my own daughter, maybe even more.”
In 1935, the administration of Princeton University, where Einstein worked, commissioned a relief portrait of him from the Soviet sculptor Sergei Konenkov. At that time he and his wife Margarita lived in New York. By the way, Elsa was still alive. The affair with Margarita lasted ten years, until 1945, when Einstein was 66 years old and Konenkova was 51. Albert had no idea that his beloved was carrying out a special task. Moscow was pleased with her work.
There is a version that through Einstein it was possible to influence Robert Oppenheimer and other “secret” physicists. And yet, real passion burned between Margarita and Albert. It faded away only after Konenkova returned to the USSR.
And Einstein’s last love was Joanna Fantova. He maintained a close relationship with her until he was 76 years old, until his death.
Genius - about ladies
“Compared to these women, any of us is a king, because we stand on our own feet, not expecting anything from the outside, but these women are always waiting for someone to come to satisfy all their needs,” said Einstein.
According to physicist biographer Janos Pleszcz, “Einstein loved women, and the dirtier, the more primitive they were, the more they smelled of sweat, the more he liked them. Pleshch recalled how once the genius, already an old man, became extremely excited when he saw a young girl kneading dough.
What is the secret of his attractiveness?
Women are always interested in esoteric and astral teachings. And they perceived the theory of relativity as a natural continuation of supernatural teaching. Einstein was mistaken for a prophet and magician.
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On March 14, 1879, the brilliant physicist Albert Einstein was born.
The great scientist Albert Einstein, thanks to whom science moved by leaps and bounds, needs no introduction. This name is known to everyone in school. However, the school curriculum, naturally, does not intrude into the details of Albert Einstein’s personal life. As well as the fact that the great scientist did not recognize many of the laws of civilization, he preferred to live by his own laws, communicating exclusively with those with whom he was truly interested. Albert Einstein's children We never felt a lack of fatherly love, although he managed to think about completely different things when working with children.
In the photo: Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Maric with their son Hans Albert
The only woman who gave the scientist heirs was his first wife, Mileva Maric. Despite the fact that the parents of the scientific luminary opposed this marriage, he still officially registered it in 1903. There is an opinion that at the time of registration the couple already had a daughter, Lieserl. However, in official biographies she is hardly mentioned anywhere. Some suggest that she died of scarlet fever, others that the girl was raised first by the parents of Albert Einstein's wife, and then by adoptive parents. Taking into account the scientist’s reverent attitude towards the sons who appeared later, the option with scarlet fever seems more plausible. Literally a year after the wedding, the couple's eldest son, Hans Albert, was born. He served as a professor at the University of California, teaching hydraulic engineering. Born six years after his brother, the youngest son Edward was incredibly talented in music and languages. He wrote 300 poems during his teenage years alone. Unfortunately, at the age of 21, Albert Einstein's youngest son was diagnosed with schizophrenia, so he spent the rest of his life in an institution.
In the photo - Albert Einstein with his second wife Elsa and adopted daughter Margot
Despite the fact that the scientist divorced his first wife in 1919, he never stopped communicating with his sons, often spending holidays with them and corresponding with them. Since in his second marriage Albert Einstein adopted his wife’s two children from his first marriage - Ilsa and Margot - they can also be counted among the heirs of the famous physicist. Moreover, judging by the scientist’s correspondence made public almost 10 years ago, his youngest daughter was his obvious favorite. By the way, she became the person who handed over her father’s papers to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the founders of which was her stepfather. The descendants of the pathologist who stole it tried to send her the remains of Albert Einstein’s brain.
Albert Einstein was an exceptional genius. His theory of relativity formed the basis of modern physics, and he also played a special role in introducing new physical concepts and theories into scientific circulation. The 1921 Nobel Prize winner in physics has always attracted increased public attention not only to his scientific research, but everyone was also interested in his personal life. These amazing facts from Einstein's life will surprise you even more.
Einstein said that he believed in the “pantheistic” God of Benedict Spinoza, but not in a personified God - he criticized such a belief. “You believe in God, who plays dice, and I believe in complete law and order in the world that objectively exists and which I am trying to capture in a wildly speculative way. I am a firm believer, but I hope that someone will discover a more realistic path or framework than it was my lot to find. Even the great success of quantum theory will not make me believe in the fundamental game of dice, although I know very well that some of our young colleagues interpret this as a consequence of old age,” the scientist said.
The scientist rejected the label “atheist,” explaining his views: “I have repeatedly said that, in my opinion, the idea of a personified God looks childish. You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the spirit of the crusades of professional atheists, whose fervor is mainly due to the painful liberation from the shackles of the religious training received in youth. I prefer a humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual awareness of nature and our own being.”
Even in his youth, Einstein noticed that socks quickly became worn through. The man solved this problem in a unique way - he simply stopped wearing them. For official events, Einstein wore high boots so that the absence of this detail would not be noticeable.
From his early youth, Albert Einstein was opposed to war. In 1914, radical students seized control of the University of Berlin and took the rector and several professors hostage. Einstein, who was respected by both students and teachers, was sent along with Max Born to negotiate with the “invaders” and he managed to find a compromise and resolve the situation peacefully.
Little Albert had such problems with speech that those around him were afraid whether he would even learn to speak. Einstein started talking only when he was 7 years old. Even today, some scientists believe that the genius had a form of autism, or at least he showed all the signs of Asperger's syndrome.
The scientist lived with his first wife Mileva Maric for 11 years. Not only was Einstein a womanizer, but he also put forward a number of conditions to his wife: she should not insist on intimate relationships and expect any manifestations of feelings from her husband, but she was obliged to bring food to the office and look after the house. The woman faithfully fulfilled all the conditions, but Einstein still divorced her.
Even before the wedding, Mileva Maric gave birth to their first child from Albert - daughter Lieserl. But the new father, due to financial difficulties, offered to give the baby up for adoption to a wealthy childless family of Mileva’s relatives. The woman obeyed her future husband, and the scientist himself hid this dark story.
An incident that occurred in a Berlin family prompted physicists Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard to create a new absorption refrigerator. Members of that family died due to a sulfur dioxide leak from a refrigerator. The refrigerator proposed by Einstein and Szilard had no moving parts and used relatively safe alcohol. How many problems of humanity could a scientist solve if he focused on inventing something new?
Einstein started smoking while still a student at the Polytechnic University in Zurich. Smoking a pipe, in his own words, helped him concentrate and tune in to work, so he did not part with it almost until the end of his life. One of his pipes can be seen in the National Museum of American History in Washington.
Einstein's youngest son Eduard showed great promise. But when he entered university, he suffered a serious nervous breakdown. During hospitalization, the young man was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Edward was admitted to a psychiatric hospital at the age of 21, where he spent most of his life. It was difficult for Einstein to come to terms with the fact that his child was sick. In one of the letters, the physicist even wrote that it would have been better if Edward had not been born.
In 1952, politician David Ben-Gurion invited Einstein to become president of Israel. Albert rejected the offer, explaining the refusal by lack of experience and an unsuitable mindset.
In February 1919, Einstein divorced his first wife Mileva Maric, and a few months later he married his cousin Elsa. During his second marriage, the physicist had many mistresses; Elsa was not only aware of all her husband’s adventures, but could also discuss his extramarital adventures with him.
In several of his letters, Einstein mentioned his mistress Margarita, whom he called a “Soviet spy.” The FBI seriously considered the theory that the girl was a Russian agent whose mission was to lure Einstein to work in the Soviet Union.
Elsa Leventhal was Einstein's maternal cousin. She was three years older, divorced, and had two daughters. Since childhood, Elsa and Albert have been on good terms. The close relationship did not bother the lovers at all, and in 1919 they got married. They never had any children together, but Einstein lived with Elsa until her death.
In 1955, a 76-year-old physicist was admitted to Princeton Hospital complaining of chest pain. The next morning, Einstein died from massive hemorrhage after a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Einstein himself wanted to be cremated after his death. Without any permission, Einstein's brain was removed by pathologist Thomas Harvey. He photographed the brain from various angles and then cut it into approximately 240 blocks. For 40 years, he sent pieces of Einstein's brain to leading neurologists for study.
Albert Einstein - Great Serpent (tempter)
The archives of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have revealed previously closed correspondence between the brilliant physicist and his wives, lovers and children.
Albert Einstein's wives and children
Albert Einstein had at least ten mistresses. He liked playing the violin more than giving boring lectures at universities. He never wore socks. And the first wife of the great scientist had great difficulty in teaching him to use a toothbrush...
These details of the scientist’s life became known after the archives of the Hebrew University made his correspondence public. "The Week" contacted the archive and is publishing extracts from Einstein's letters.
"Of all the ladies, only Mrs. L is safe and decent."
Einstein's adopted daughter Margot donated almost 3,500 of her stepfather's letters to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with one condition: that the correspondence be made public only 20 years after her death. Why did Margot choose Hebrew University? Einstein was one of its founders and donated part of his library and personal papers to this institution. Margot died on July 8, 1986. The university kept its word.
“I am writing to you because you are the most sensible member of the family, and poor mother Elsa (Einstein’s second wife and Margot’s mother) is already completely furious,” the scientist writes to his adopted daughter from Oxford on May 8, 1931. “It is true that M . followed me to England, and her persecution goes beyond all bounds. But, firstly, I could hardly avoid it, and, secondly, when I see her again, I will tell her that she must disappear immediately."
By the mysterious "M" Einstein meant his mistress Ethel Mikhanovsky, who was 15 years younger than him. The scientist often complained to his wife that all the women around did not give him access. But in reality, he himself did not miss a single skirt. Because of this, Einstein broke up with his first wife, and with his second, Elsa - for this reason, constant conflicts arose.
Although Elsa came to terms with the adventures of her brilliant husband. When he brought women home for the night, she would go to bed alone as if nothing had happened. And in the morning she made Albert coffee with a smile.
“Of all the ladies, I am actually close only to Mrs. L., who is absolutely safe and decent,” Einstein writes to Margot. “It doesn’t matter to me what people say about me, but for mother and Mrs. M. it is better that no volumes, wild and Harry didn't gossip about her."
"I love Margot like a daughter, even more"
Other letters tell about Einstein’s connections with certain Margarita, Tony, Estella.
“Among all these ladies,” the scientist explained, “the only one to whom I am attached is L., she is absolutely simple-minded and pleasant.”
Who this “L” was, one can only guess.
In one of his letters in 1921, Albert admitted that his love for science was fleeting: “Very soon I will get tired of the theory of relativity. Even such passion disappears when you pay too much attention to it.”
The only thing that remained constant throughout Einstein’s life was his love for his adopted daughter.
“I recently dreamed that Margot also got married,” Einstein writes to Elsa. “I love her as much as if she were my own daughter, maybe even more.”
Here is another letter of his, addressed to Margot.
“I am happy that you will soon return,” Einstein wrote in a letter to his stepdaughter at the end of 1928. “In this way, young life will return to our lair. I feel a little better, but it will still be quite some time before I I'll become an old beast again."
With his correspondence, the scientist confirms the public opinion of himself as a person far from “civilized society.”
“My stay here is coming to an end,” Einstein wrote to Elsa from Oxford on June 11, 1933. “It was a good time, and I am already beginning to get used to a tuxedo, just as I once got used to a toothbrush. However, even in the most formal On occasions I would leave without socks and hide my lack of civility in high boots."
In this letter, Einstein addresses an argument he had with Elsa over the use of a toothbrush: the scientist considered it an unnecessary item.
The correspondence reveals how Einstein spent his Nobel Prize. It was previously thought that the money was deposited in a Swiss bank account in the name of Milena's first wife and their children. But according to the letters, Einstein invested most of the prize in the United States, losing almost all of it due to the Great Depression.
What the archive keeper said
“Einstein studied at the university with his first wife Milena Maric,” Barbara Wolf, the curator of the Einstein archives, tells Nedelya. “They even say that she was the author of the theory of relativity. But this is all nonsense. She was not talented enough to make a discovery of such magnitude ".
Maric gave birth to two sons to the scientist - Eduard and Hans Albert. Einstein was a very good father to them; they understood each other in everything. The scientist often spent holidays with his sons.
Edward was a very gifted child. He had a talent for languages and music. He wrote about 300 poems and aphorisms while still a teenager. One of the aphorisms invented by Edward: “The worst fate is not to have a fate and not to be a fate for anyone.”
At the age of 21, doctors diagnosed him with schizophrenia. Einstein wrote about his worries for his son in letters to his wife. In addition, the money issue was also raised in their correspondence: Albert did not send money on time and not as much as required. His sons and wife barely had enough to live on.
“Now the Buenos Aires program is coming to an end,” Einstein writes to Elsa from Buenos Aires on April 23, 1925. “I will never do anything like this again. It is extremely difficult (meaning traveling around Latin America. - “Week ").Nevertheless, I remained safe and sound, although I had gained a little weight. I had just returned from a small reception, an event so beautiful that I even burst into tears."
Who were Einstein's wives and children?
Einstein married for the first time in 1903, at the age of 24. His chosen one was the Serbian mathematician Mileva Maric.
They met in Zurich, where they both studied at the Polytechnic. His wife more than once helped Einstein in his scientific work.
Mileva became the mother of Einstein's three children. The first daughter, Lieserl, was born before their marriage. Her exact fate is not known. According to one version, she died at an early age from scarlet fever, according to another, she was raised for some time by Mileva’s parents, and later she was adopted by unknown people.
The Einsteins' eldest son, Hans Albert, showed himself to be a capable and diligent student from childhood. He later became a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California.
Edward, the youngest son of Albert and Mileva, was also gifted, but suffered from congenital schizophrenia and died in a psychiatric hospital, where he was admitted at the age of 21 and where he spent most of his life.
After living with Einstein for sixteen years, Mileva filed for divorce, unable to bear her husband’s constant infidelities.
Einstein's second wife was his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. She was three years older than Einstein and had already been married before him, from which she had two daughters. The eldest is Ilsa and the youngest is Margot.
Elsa went with Einstein to America, where she lived until her death in 1936. Evgenia Gromova, Nadezhda Popova
Amazingly, Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize not for his theory of relativity, but for his explanation of the photoelectric effect (the knocking out of electrons from certain substances under the influence of light).
In 1905, Einstein created the special theory of relativity and derived the famous equation about the relationship between mass and energy E = mc2, which is the theoretical basis for the atomic bomb.
By 1916, he had completed the development of the General Theory of Relativity (GTR), which relates gravity to the geometric properties of space and time. The theory was fully confirmed in experiments conducted in the middle of the last century, and more recently, German scientists began a unique experiment to detect “gravitational waves” predicted by General Relativity.
Einstein did not believe in quantum theory, which actively uses the concepts of probability and randomness, and said that “God does not play dice.” However, it was he who made enormous contributions to the quantum theory of light and created Bose-Einstein quantum statistics.
In 2001, the Nobel Prize was awarded to the scientists who discovered the gas described by these statistics. The discovery of the fifth state of matter is yet another brilliant proof of the truth. Petr Obraztsov
Soviet spy caught Einstein red-handed
In 1935, the administration of Princeton University, where Einstein worked, commissioned a relief portrait of its employee from the famous Soviet sculptor Sergei Konenkov - at that time he lived with his wife Margarita in New York.
This is how Albert met his beloved.
Many years later, KGB Lieutenant General Pavel Sudoplatov would write in his memoirs: “The wife of the sculptor Konenkov, our trusted agent, became close to the physicists Oppenheimer and Einstein.” The latter allegedly agreed to help Konenkova.
However, the word “closer” acquired a second meaning in 1998 - when the letters of the great scientist to Margarita were put up at the American Sotheby’s auction. Correspondence, photographs, a drawing of Einstein and the watch that he gave to Konenkova went for 250 thousand dollars.
In one of these letters, the scientist expressed his love for Margarita in verse:
"I tormented you for two weeks,
And you wrote that you are unhappy with me,
But understand - I was also tormented by others
Endless stories about yourself,
You can't escape the family circle -
This is our common misfortune.
Through the sky is inevitable
And our future truly looks through,
My head is buzzing like a beehive
My heart and hands are weak."
The last meeting of the lovers took place in August 1945.
Aphorisms from Albert Einstein's letters
1. “Thank God, while I’m alive, no one can sell my skin and profit from it.”
2. “Everywhere they are afraid of competition with the “brainy” Jews. We are even more burdened by our strength than by our weakness.”
3. “The most annoying thing was the love of the Jews, which I experienced myself.”
Aphorisms of Edward, Einstein's son, who suffered from schizophrenia
2. “One thing the champion of the new forgets: while he attacks, the attack is his ideal. Only then will it be revealed what it is like to live without an ideal.”
3. “There is nothing worse for a person than to meet someone when all his efforts and existence have already been worthless.”
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Today marks the 138th anniversary of the birth of the great theoretical physicist Albert Einstein. Like many other geniuses, Einstein was, shall we say, eccentric. And in relationships with women it is completely unbearable. The scientist was married twice, and both women turned out to be hostages of their feelings rather than muses. They had to put up with the terrible demands of their spouse, humiliation and betrayal. But, in spite of everything, they were selflessly devoted to their husband.
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Einstein met his first wife while studying at the Polytechnic School. Mileva Maric was 21 years old, he was 17. According to contemporaries, this person was completely devoid of charm, limped on one leg, was painfully jealous and prone to depression.
Obviously, Albert liked this type. Although his parents were categorically against marriage with a Serbian emigrant, the young scientist was determined to get married. His letters to Maric were charred with passion: “I have lost my mind, I am dying, I am burning with love and desire. The pillow you sleep on is a hundred times happier than my heart!”
Mileva Maric in her youth.
But even before he walked down the aisle, Einstein began to act strange. When Mileva gave birth to a girl in 1902, the groom insisted on placing her in the care of childless relatives “due to financial difficulties.” The fact that Einstein had a daughter, Lieserl, became known only in 1997, when his great-grandchildren sold the physicist’s personal letters at auction.
The tone of the letters also changed. In one of them, the girl found a kind of job description:
If you want marriage, you will have to agree to my conditions, here they are:
First, you will take care of my clothes and bed;
- secondly, you will bring me food three times a day to my office;
- thirdly, you will refuse all personal contacts with me, except for those that are necessary to maintain decency in society;
- fourthly, whenever I ask you to do this, you will leave my bedroom and office;
- fifthly, without words of protest you will perform scientific calculations for me;
- Sixthly, you will not expect any manifestations of feelings from me.
However, Maric was so in love with Albert (and he was a very, very attractive person) that she agreed to accept this “manifesto”. Soon after the wedding, a son, Hans, appeared in the Einstein family, and six years later, Eduard (he was born with disabilities and ended his days in a psychiatric hospital). The scientist treated these children with due warmth and attention.
But the relationship with his wife was completely absurd. The physicist turned out to be very willing to intrigue on the side, and perceived complaints about this as insults. He adopted the fashion of locking himself in his office, and at times the couple did not speak for several days. The last straw was a letter in which Einstein demanded that Mileva renounce all intimacy with him. In the summer of 1914, the woman took the children and left Berlin for Zurich.
The marriage, however, lasted another three years. Mileva agreed to the divorce only after her husband promised to give her the money owed to the Nobel laureate (they both had no doubt that the prize would not bypass the scientist). To Einstein’s credit, he kept his word and in 1921 sent his ex-wife the $32,000 he received.
Three months after the divorce, Albert married again, to his cousin Elsa, who shortly before had looked after him with maternal care during his illness. Einstein agreed to adopt two girls from Elsa's previous marriage, and in the early years the house was idyllic.
Charlie Chaplin, who visited them, spoke of Elsa in the following way: “Life force was gushing out of this woman with a square figure. She openly enjoyed the greatness of her husband and did not hide it at all; her enthusiasm was even captivating.”
However, Einstein could not remain faithful to traditional family values for long. His loving nature continually pushed him to new adventures. Elsa had to listen to her husband’s complaints that women did not give him passage. Sometimes he even brought his mistresses to family dinners.
Surprisingly, Elsa also found the strength to pacify her jealousy. Truly, love is a terrible force.
The woman's health was undermined by the death of her eldest daughter. In 1936, she died in the arms of her husband. By that time, he himself was no longer a boy at all, and he no longer had the strength (or perhaps the desire) to marry again.