Einstein`s letter to his son

In 1915, at the age of 36, Einstein lived in Berlin, while his wife, Mileva and his two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard Einstein "Tete" Einstein lived in Zurich. On November 4 of that year, just after Einstein had left off masterpiece that catapulted towards fame History - General Theory of Relativity, he wrote a letter full of love, son of 11, Hans Albert.

“My dear Albert,

Yesterday I received a letter from you dear and I was very happy. I was afraid that zou are not gonna write me anymore. You told me when I was in Zurich, you feel weird about my coming. Therefore I think we can gather better, in another place, where no one can hinder us comfort. Anyway, I will do my best every year to spend one month together, you'll see that you have a father who is proud of you and who loves you.

Also, you can learn a lot of interesting and beautiful things to me, something else can offer the same ease. What we have achieved through such grueling work should not be only for foreigners, but for my boys. These days I finally went to one of the most beautiful works of my life; when you're older, I'll tell you.

Glad to hear you like to play the piano. That and carpentry, are in my opinion the best choices at your age even better than school. For these is a young fit you. Plays the piano, those parts do you most enjoy, even if the teacher does not teach you. This is the way to learn the easiest when you do something so that you do not feel pleasure as time passes. Are sometimes so caught my work that I forget to lunch ...

Be Tete with which I kiss

Greetings mother. “

Mileva Marić and Einstein had with two sons and a daughter (whose fate remained unknown). The two wereBern - Switzerland, their first son, Hans Albert Einstein, to whom this letter is addressed. The second son, Eduard, was born in Zurich in 1910. In 1914, Einstein moved to Berlin, while his wife remained in Zurich with their two sons. They divorced in 1919, after 5 years of separation.

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It looks like Einstein simply did not know how to handle his son’s mental illness. He once wrote that Eduard was his “single unsolved problem” and he is reported to have said that if he had known everything in advance, he would not have let Eduard be born.

For most of his life Eduard would remain under the care of his loving mother, with intervals in foster families and in the Burghölzi clinic. After Mileva’s death in 1948, Eduard came to live in the clinic permanently. Below is one of the last photos taken of him. He died from a stroke in the same clinic at the age of 55, in 1965.

According to older brother Hans Albert, what had really ruined Eduard’s mental and physical health was the overuse of therapies with far too heavy medication – and especially the very intensive use of electroshocks. Looking back, it is hard to establish if this judgment was correct but he may well have been right.

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