Persons
-- Stachel: boss of the review "Physics Today" in
the "USA"
-- AAAS: American Association for the
Advancement of Science
-- WCRI: Walker Cancer Research Institute
Circle of friends of Einstein's
"Academia Olympia"
-- the Habicht brothers,
Maurice Solovine, Angelo Besso and his
wife
-- Ehrenfest (pen friend)
-- Max
Born, dialogue partner
Friends
of Mileva
-- Helene Kaufler-Savic, Helene
Kaufler, Zurich
-- Bogdanovich,
a mathematician in the Ministry of
Education in Belgrade, who was
well acquainted with Mileva
Einstein-Maric
-- Dr. Ada
Broch, friend of the
Einstein Family in
Zurich
Examples
of other suppressed women
-- Dr. jur. Emilie Kempin-Spyri, first
woman lawyer in Switzerland being
blocked by arrogant men
-- Lise
Meitner may "collaborate" for being
concealed when the publication comes
-- Eda Nodacks has got the idea in
1934 - and Hahn+Strassmann receive the
Nobel Prize
Professors
--
1895-1900: ETH-Professor Jean Pernet:
Einstein has no knowledge of physics
-- 1900-1902:
ETH-Professor Weber rejects a position as
assistant to the truant and rebel
Einstein, first supervisor of Einstein,
quit
-- Professor Kleiner, second
supervisor of Einstein, quit
-- Professor
Zangger, looked for a job for Einstein
at Zurich University in 1915
Content
Bang 1) Collected Papers of Albert Einstein are
hiding the important quote of Einstein: "My wife
solves all my mathematical problems"
Bang 2) Albert Einstein consideres Mileva Einstein
as "equal"
Bang 3) Einstein: "Everything I have done and
accomplished I owe to Mileva" - inspiration,
protection, science
Bang 4) Patent stolen: Mileva NOT mentioned with the
patent of Einstein-Habicht apparatus
Bang 5) Mileva's family name "Maric" stolen in
"Annals of Physic" in Leipzig also in 1905
Bang 6) Leipzig "Annals of Physics" destroyed
manuscripts of Einstein-Maric
Bang 7) Einstein's short fruitful mathematics period
1900-1905 was with Mileva
Bang 8: Einstein in 1920 tells himself in letters
that he cannot high maths
Bang 9: ETH professors detect: Einstein has NO
knowledge about physics - only Mileva supports
Einstein
Bang 10: Mileva is the only one believing in
Einstein's "talent" of physics 1895-1900
Bang 11: Einstein let Mileva help in maths instead
of learning maths himself (!)
Bang 12: Self-sacrifice by Mileva in 1900 for Albert
Einstein after his 4.91 diploma not getting an
assistant post: she withdraws her excellent
dissertation in protest - no diploma for her
Bang 13: In 1914, Einstein's Jewish family does not
recognize the marriage between Einstein and the
Orthodox Christian Mileva (!) - Jewish racism
against Mileva, and Einstein accepts that (!)
Bang 14: Einstein during WWI in Berlin on the
looser's side - German inflation - Einstein's money
has no value - Mileva+2 sons 8 years in poverty
Bang 15: Mileva has not recognized her helper
syndrome and the "science" of Freud simply says
"hysterical"
Bang 16: Mileva Einstein in 1948 is kicked out of
her flat shortly before death of 1948 - for Einstein
this does not matter - he is retired and does not
come to Zurich - Einstein lets die Mileva alone
MILEVA EINSTEIN-MARIC: The Woman
Who Did Einstein's Mathematics
by SENTA TROEMEL-PLOETZ
Franklin and Marshall College, Department of
German and Russian, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA
17604-3003, U.S.A., and Deutsche
Forschungsgemeinschaft, Bonn, Germany
Bang 1) Collected Papers of Albert
Einstein are hiding the important quote of
Einstein: "My wife solves all my mathematical
problems"
Synopsis - At the ETH in Zurich, the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, it is common knowledge that
Einstein said about the mathematical side of his
work: "
My wife solves all my mathematical
problems." There is no hint of that in
the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol. 1
(Princeton University Press, 1987) which covers the
time to 1902. We can be fairly certain that there
won't be a hint in the second volume, which will
cover the most crucial time of Mileva
Einstein-Maric's cooperation with her husband, the
time of "his creative outburst", when the papers
were written for which he would win the Nobel Prize.
I want to take a close look at the only existing
biography of Mileva Einstein-Maric [[until
1990]], written by a Yugoslav mathematician and
physicist, which appeared in German translation in
1983. I want to show some of the mechanisms at work
in the lives of the two people who met as students
at the ETH, studied and worked together, got
married, had children, and then followed eadh their
own life path: The man became famous and is numbered
among the great; the woman became invisible,
unknown, and unheard of. The man achieved; the woman
worked to support herself and their children. We see
in the two life stories the familiar patterns that
lead to the construction of success for men and the
deconstruction of success for women. It is not
surprising that the editors of the Collected Papers
of Albert Einstein have nothing more to say about
Mileva Einstein-Maric than: "Her personal and
intellectual relationships (sic!) with the young
Einstein played an important role in his
development."
I also want ot show, to the extent to which it is
possible from the biography of Mileva Einstein-Maric
and from the correspondence in the Collected Papers
of Albert Einstein, Vol. 1, what is the scientific
contribution of Einstein-Maric to her husband's
work.
If it were not for the cultural imperialism of the
U.S. academic establishment, it might be known in
Princeton what is known in Novi Sad - Einstein-Maric
was the scientific collaborator of her husband.
[The book "In the shadow of Albert
Einstein" from 1969 in Serbian - only in 1983 in
German - Swiss ETH people only laugh about Mileva]
The fourth edition of a book has just appeared in
German whose content deserves to be known more
widely than the prohibitive price of the hardbound
Swiss edition would allow.
The book, "Im Schatten Albert Einsteins. Das
Tragische Leben der Mileva Einstein-Maric" (1988)
("In the Shadow of Albert Einstein: The Tragic Life
of Mileva Einstein-Maric"), was published by Paul
Haupt in Bern, Switzerland. This edition took quite
a shile to appear, probably because of the delitions
and additions to which the male editor subjected the
earlier edition.
The original appeared in 1969, published by Bagdala,
a Yugoslav publishing firm in Kru
¨evać [[deutsch:
Kru¨chewatz]]. Its author is
Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric (1897-1983), a Serbian
mathematician and physicist who taught at the
Institute of Technology and the University of
Belgrade. After she retired, she researched and
wrote the biography of Mileva Einstein-Maric, the
first wife of Albert Einstein. Because the book
appeared in Serbian, its content remained totally
unknown in Western Europe and the United States,
even to persons who were interested in Einstein's
life.
The 1983 German edition was intended to redress this
situation, but I have never met a mathematician or
physicist, not even at the ETH, the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology, Einstein's alma mater, who
knew the book or cared about its content. But at
least Einstein's admission, "
My wife does my
mathematics", is general knowledge at
the ETH in Zurich, although it serves only as a
[p.415]
starter for jokes along the same lines and never as
a starter for serious questioning about this
mathematician. Who was she? Why do we not know
anything about her and her work? Why was she not
offered academic positions in Prague, Berlin,
Princeton, or Pasadena? How did it happen that she
only got the money from the Nobel Prize and was not
named winner together with Einstein? What was her
life like? What became of her?
[since 1969: The versions of the book -
"the editor" without name deleting 3 pages and
adding new pages]
The Yugoslav author answers some of these questions.
She gives an account of a life and fate that is
moving to everyone and that touches a deep chord of
recognition in readers who know about the silencing
of women's voices and the annihilation of women's
work. Ever since I first read this book, it has
haunted me. I haven't been able to put it aside. I
just had to reread it; I just had to talk about it
again and again in private conversations and in
public lectures. -- Its author is now dead; I should
have liked to talk with her. I do not trust the
German version of the book, which states no
translator but admits to "redaktionelle Bearbeitung"
(editorial reworking) by the same person who has now
in the fourht edition advanced to become "the
editor" and who has changed the original book not
only by unmarked [1]
[1]
Addition of two letters, pp. 139-140 and pp.
196-197; one excerpt of a letter p.202;
addition of text in editor's postscript,
pp.212-213.
and marked [2] additions,
[2]
In three places a Nachtrag (afterthought,
addition) is added; pp.48-52, pp.59-78, and
pp.161-162.
but also by a
deletion of over three pages
and
the substitution of a 17-page text of his
own. How are we to know what changes he
made through his first "editorial re-working" on the
German translation - Trbuhovic-Gjuric may have
translated her book herself into German - or, if he
was also the translator, by his very translation?
The editor [[Paul Haupt in Berne]] justifies his
changes by reference to new material that has come
to light, especially in "The Collected Papers of
Albert Einstein, Vol. 1" (1987). However, he may
have unintentionally given away the real motivation
in an addition to his postscript (unmarked). There
he quotes a passage by Trbuhovic-Gjuric (which he
had delted from the text of the new edition) in
which the author described Mileva Einstein-Maric as
supporting Albert Einstein at a time when none of
his professors wanted to do anything for him, and
when he was being turned down repeatedly when
applying for jobs. Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes that
Mileva Einstein-Maric supported him:
With her infinite love which allowed her
to believe in him and fully understand him. She
was the source of his hope and of his confidence
in his own ideas. She was the only one who stood
by him not only emotionally but by virtue of her
scientific understanding, in which she was his
equal. This support was stronger than all hostile
forces in the world. She also helped him to fight
against his own nature, for he made decisions
quickly but changed them just as quickly. Her
decisions took time to mature but then they were
irrevocable. Truthfulness and integrity of word
and deed were part of her harmonious character
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, pp.58-59) [3]
[3] This
quotation and all the other excerpts from
German texts were translated by the author of
this article.
Bang 2) Albert Einstein consideres
Mileva Einstein as "equal"
[The editor
Paul Haupt in Berne is eliminating from the
book what he wants]
The editor [[Paul Haupt in Berne]] takes issue with
what he defines as "the provocative core of that
characterization", the equal scientific
understanding, and notes that:
Whatever may have been the case
regarding her being his scientific equal, Einstein
felt the same way at the time he made his
fundamental discoveries and expressed it with
these words that have now come to light: "How
happy I am to have found in you an
equal creature who is equally strong
and independent as I am." (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1988,
p.213) [4]
[4] This
quotation is from Albert Einstein's letter to
Mileva Einstein-Maric dated Oct. 3, 1900
(Collected Papers, Vol.1, 1987, p.267).
But rather than taking Albert Einstein's own
statement as evidence for Trbuhovic-Gjuric's
hypothesis, he did not let her description of Mileva
Einstein-Maric stand, but simply eradicated it.
Stilll he concludes in a truly hypocritical manner
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1988, p.213):
One cannot imagine a more beautiful
coincidence: the fact that there is an agreement
in the idea and the choice of expressions used by
Einstein and Trbuhovic-Gjuric speaks very well of
the book as the author has left it.
This is nicely ambiguous: does he mean the Serbian
original, which we cannot read, or the edited
version he is now offering us
[p.416] and
for which, due to his delition, the agreement no
longer can be claimed? It is a superb example of
irony that he is acclaiming a book he could not
leave untouched, acclaiming an author whose words he
did not approve of and had to tamper with while he
is forcing on us a version of the book the author
did
not leave us!
[The original of the book was not accessible -
second edition of 1983 is the base which is in
"The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Vol.1"]
Since the original is not accessible to me and the
fourth edition does not have the credibility of the
book I originally read, I will now stay with the
second edition of 1983 which, l by the way, is
listed as a biiographical source in "The Collected
Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 1"
[Search for data was difficult: Mileva was often
hiding herself]
Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes in her foreword,
dated Fall 1982, that she attempted to collect
memories, details, and small events in the life of
Mileva Einstein-Maric, about which she learned from
people who knew her - relatives, friends,
acquaintances - or from letters, diaries, documents,
to form "a mosaic of the life from the still
existing pebbles." This was certainly not an easy
task, especially because, as she said, the
literature contained only few observations about
Mileva Einstein-Maric and those contradicted each
other and were possibly tendentious to her
disadvantage. But also, in contrast to Albert
Einstein, Mileva Einstein-Maric was, like her
mother, taciturn about her life and her experience
to the point where she asked people to not talk
about her.
[The woman writer Ms. Trbuhovic-Gjuric: show
Mileva as a woman]
Trbuhovic-Gjuric's motivation was to focus on the
unknown, unacknowledged, and on what was "unjustly
put aside into oblivion ... without disputing the
indubitable merits of the other side"
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.5). The reader is left to
draw her or his own conclusions.
Throughout the book she carefully sticks to this
objectivity - she never evaluates, comments on, or
judges Albert Einstein's behavior. She only wants to
make Mileva Einstein-Maric's life visible by
collecting facts about it
and she wants to
make her scientific contribution known. She is
uniquely qualified for this endeavor through her own
biography, as a Serb with similar upbringing and
identical fields, as a mathematician and physicist,
and as a person with ties to Zurich. But,
especially, she brings her female perspective to the
task and the result is a book written with the kind
of empathy a man could not have mustered. She wanted
to rescue Mileva Einstein-Maric from oblivion and
write her into Serbian and scientific history. She
knew that no man would do that job for Mileva
Einstein-Maric, whose own husband failed to give her
the public recognition she deserved.
[The questions: What had Mileva become without
Einstein? A good mathematician?]
She was interested in Mileva Einstein-Maric as a
mathematician and a woman whose life had taken a
different route from that of most women, leading to
a university career. I am sure Trbuhovic-Gjuric was
aware of the impediments facing women in this
career, of the mechanisms militating against women's
contributions to the areas of mathematics and
physics. As a mathematician and physicist, she knew
that without the fundamental contribution of Mileva
Einstein-Maric, the theory of relativity would not
exist, yet this contribution had never even entered
the history of the field. It was immediately
eradicated. She must have pondered again and again
the following issue: Why did the relationship
between Mileva Einstein-Maric and Albert Einstein
secure world fame for the man and not even a
university teaching job for Mileva Einstein-Maric?
Why was that relationship fatal for Mileva
Einstein-Maric? Had she not met, had she especially
not married Einstein, would we know of her as a
prominent mathematician? Had she at least not had
children, could she have had her own professional
life and recognition, would her marriage have
endured?
[Tesis by Senta: woman writer Trbuhovic-Gjuric
compared her life with Mileva's life]
I am sure the author, born only 25 years later than
Mileva Einstein-Maric, compared her own life with
that of Mileva Einstein-Maric; I am sure she thought
of the many women mathematicians and their life
conditions which keep them from gaininng
recognition. She did not blame patriarchy, the
system which bestows privilege on men, she did not
even blame Einstein himself - she only points to the
modesty of Mileva Einstein-Maric, who asked for no
recognition but was happy for, and content with,
Albert Einstein's successes. Her explanation of
Mileva Einstein-Maric's fate ends there because she
does not want to cast aspersions on the character of
Albert Einstein. She
[[Trbuhovic-Gjuric]] wrote
the book when she was close to 70; it appeared in
1969 when she was 72. Her deep interest in Mileva
Einstein-Maric and her aim in writing the
[p.417]
book would be termed feminist today. Only we would
not stop where she did. We cannot but see universal
connections and patterns in the female condition
when we read the book today. In the meantime, we
have uncovered, and become clear about, the
mechanisms that suppres the contributions of women,
and we cannot help seeing them at work in a
particularly shocking way in the careers of both
Einsteins.
[1912: The Einstein family destroys
the "tandem" Einstein + Mileva
The feminist Senta Trömel-Plötz
-- does not see the Jewish racism of the Einstein
family against the Christian Orthodox Mileva,
there defamations without end
-- does not see that Einstein hides from his
parents that he can not do high mathematics, which
is done by Mileva
-- So: The Einstein parents do NOT see that
Einstein and Mileva are forming a scientific
"tandem", and from 1912 they definitely destroy
this "tandem" and Einstein gives in].
[Question: Why the modesty of Mileva?]
We cannot be content with "Mileva Einstein-Maric's
modesty, her willingness to sacrifice, her kindness,
her fear of publicity and avoidance of personal
recognition, the unconditional devotion to the work
of her genius husband and to her familiy" as an
explanation of why Mileva Einstein-Maric is not
known today, as the fourth edition suggests in its
rather Christian blurb. For us, the mere fact that
Mileva Einstein-Maric did not want to talk about her
own merits, and her mathematical work for Albert
Einstein, does not relieve Albert Einstein of the
responsibility for his silence in this matter. He
could have talked about it, but he did not.
What kept him from giving her full name when he
published a patent which appeared under the name
Einstein-Habicht?
Why did he not immediately insist on a correction
when Mileva Einstein-Maric's name was dropped as an
author of the articles that appeared in 1905 in the
Leipzig "Annalen der Physik"? Later on he received
the Nobel Prize for one of those articles.
Why did he not acknowledge in public that it was
she
who came up with the idea to investigate ether and
its importance (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.69)?
Bang 3) Einstein: "Everything I have
done and accomplished I owe to Mileva" -
inspiration, protection, science
[About the Einstein letter to the father
of Mileva in Novi Sad]
Why did his recognition of her work remain private,
for example, he told Mileva Einstein-Maric's father
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.76):
I didn't mary your daughter because of
the money but because I love her, because I need
her, because we are both one. Everything I
have done and accomplished I owe to Mileva.
She is my genial source of inspiration,
my protective angel against sins in
life and even more so in science.
Without her I would not have started my work let
alone finished it.
He told a group of Serbian intellectuals in 1905: "I
need my wife. She solves all the mathematical
problems for me" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.75). --
Of course we know that women's names as authors and
co-authors, as givers of ideas, as collaborators
often disappear or take second place; their work is
simply appropriated by men [5],
[5]
[More cases: Lise Meitner may
"collaborate" but is eliminated later -
Eda Nodacks has an idea in 1934 - but
Hahn+Strassmann receive the Nobel
Prize]
A more recent case in the history
of science is Lise Meitner, who
was said to be the head of the Strassmann-Hahn
team, who had worked with Hahn for three
decades, giving her ideas (e.g., the term
"fission" is due to her) and especially giving
the exact physical interpretations to the
common experiments before she was expelled as
a Jew and as a woman from Nazi Germany and its
universities. Hahn and Strassmann stayed and
published the paper on uranium fission without
her name, later receiving the Nobel Prize for
the publication (Krafft, 1978). -- It is
interesting to note that at least one other
woman was disregarded by the two men.
Immediately after their publication in the
journal "Naturwissenschaften", a chemist, Eda
Nodacks, wrote a letter to that
journal, dated March 10, 1939, saying that
Hahn and Strassmann had persistently ignored
her conjecture, first made in 1934, that the
nucleus of the uranium atom might break
through radiation with neutrons. -- The
editors of "Naturwissenschaften" answered that
"the gentlemen Hahn and Strassmann had neither
time nor did they feel like answering to the
letter ... they are leaving it to their
colleagues to judge the matter" (cf:
"Ignoranz"; in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
[[Arrogance; in: Frankfort General Newspaper]]
, Dec. 7, 1988) [p.431].
at most - if they are fortunate - their names may
appear in the dedication. -- I am not sure of this,
but I think it unlikely that Albert Einstein even so
much as dedicated a book to Mileva Einstein-Maric.
But let us look at how her name was dropped in the
two incidents I have mentioned.
[Bern 1902: Patent Office and Academia Olympia -
and the patent for the Einstein-Habicht apparatus
measuring small electrical currents]
In the middle of 1902, Albert Einstein, through the
connections of the father of a friend of his, Marcel
Grossmann, got his first regular position in the
Swiss Patent Office in Bern. On January 6, 1903,
Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein were married.
Together with friends (the brothers Habicht, Maurice
Solovine, Angelo Besso, and his wife), they met
regularly to read philosophical and scientific works
which they discussed and studies. They called their
group Academia Olympia. Mileva Einstein-Maric
continued to collaborate with Albert Einstein as
they had been doing since they first studied
together, and she was also responsible for the
household chores. Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes
(1983, p.65):
Together with Paul Habicht she worked at
the construction of a machine for measuring
small electrical currents by way of
multiplication. It took a long time, not only
because she had so much to do [Einstein's
mathematical problems, ST-P], but also because of
her thoroughness and perfectionism. She had
already distinguished herself in the physics lab
in Zurich. When both she and Habicht were
satisfied with their results, they left it to
Albert Einstein, as a patent expert, to describe
the apparatus.
Bang 4) Patent stolen: Mileva NOT
mentioned with the patent of Einstein-Habicht
apparatus
[The
publications about Einstein-Habicht apparatus
- patent of Einstein-Habicht apparatus by
Einstein - Mileva is NOT mentioned - no
protest]
Albert Einstein published an article about it in his
own name: It appeared in the "Annalen der Physik" in
1907 [[boss: Max Planck]], under the title "Eine
neue elektrostatische Methode zur Messung kleiner
Elektrizitätsmengen" [[A new electrostatic method
for measuring small quantities of electricity]] ,
and then he gave a detailed description of this
method in an article, again using his name only, in
the "Physikalische Zeitschrift" [[Physical Review]],
No. 7, 1908.
[so:
Mileva AND Habicht are left out
(!)]
And he had the apparatus patented under the
[p.418]
name "Einstein-Habicht" (Patent No. 35693).
Trbuhovic-Gjuric comments (1983, p.65):
When one of the Habicht brothers asked
Mileva Einstein-Maric why she had not given her
own name in the application for the patent, she
answered: What for, we are both only ONE STONE
(=Einstein). Then Paul Habicht also decided to
give only his last name.
[Tesis: Mileva with farmer's
mentality does not see the reality in
Zurich
Leaving everything to the husband is a farmer's
bride's mentality when a big family is around and
when there is no need to fight for life. Mileva is
awaiting a reward at another moment. But this
tactic is not working in Zurich with Einstein and
in a men's world: Mileva suffers a psychological
lack of reality and the men do not see this but
are exploiting her and at the end she is destroyed
1) by Leipzig (review "Annals of Physics"
eliminating her name many times) 2) and Berlin
(where Einstein is dropping her off his brain
rather liking to make festivals with his Jewish
racist family, with secret men clubs, and with
famous women as also with women from the nobles).
The false modesty is also caused by the criminal
psychology of Sigmund Freud, who defines women as
"hysterical" and that is parroted in the upper
class and at all universities. Mileva will avoid
any attention so as not to be rated
"hysterical"]].
Not giving the full name, however, had different
results for the woman and the man because a last
name is usually associated with a man. Mileva
Einstein-Maric lost her authorship entirely and it
was automatically bestowed on her husband.
Therefore, the question why she didn't give her
own
name instead of her full name was correctly
formulated: "Einstein" in "Einstein-Habicht" meant
"Albert Einstein". Soon after they were married,
Einstein profited from the Swiss law about names
which forced women to put their husband's name first
in their double names and which, incidentally, was
only changed in 1988.
It was the patent under the name "Einstein-Habicht",
plus the
absence of any protest about
the misrepresentation of authorship, which made it
easy for Einstein to publish two articles on the
medhod in his name, and thus appropriate for himself
all of the work his wife had done [[and also the
work of Habicht (!)]].
Bang 5) Mileva's family name "Maric"
stolen in "Annals of Physic" in Leipzig also in
1905
Much more disastrous and devastating, however, is
what happened to the five articles that appeared in
1905 in the Leipzig "Annalen der Physik". Two of
them, including his 21 page dissertation, were
written in Zurich. It's an open question how much
Mileva Einstein-Maric contributed to them. I will
talk later about Albert Einstein's evaluation of
himself and that of his professors and only mention
here that during their common student years his own
view of Mileva Einstein-Maric was that she would
make a better physicist than many men
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.41); also the friends of
Mileva Einstein-Maric felt that Albert Einstein was
exploiting her too much (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983,
p.55). This was between 1899 and 1901, the time when
he wrote his thesis (Diplomarbeit) and his
dissertation (submitted in Fall 1901, later
apparently withdrawn, degree received 1905).
[There is
the big question why Einstein had to
withdraw his dissertation in 1901. Maybe
it was written by Mileva or in Mileva's
handwriting? Where is it?]
[Joffe saw the name Einstein-Maric]
The other three articles published in Vol. XVII of
"Annalen der Physik" were written in Bern while
Albert Einstein was at the Swiss Patent Office and
were written together with his wife. He later
received the Nobel Prize for 'Einen die Erzeugung
und Verwandlung des Lichtes betreffenden
heuristischen Gesichtspunkt' [['Heuristic aspect
concerning production and transformation of
light']]. "Elektrodynamik bewegter Körper"
[["Electrodynamics of moving bodies"]] contains the
special theory of relativity. Abram F. Joffe, the
famous Russian physicist who was then an assistant
to Röntgen (a member of the editorial team that
examined the articles sent to "Annalen der Physik"
for publication) wrote in his "Erinnerungen an
Albert Einstein" [["Rememberence to Albert
Einstein"]] (Joffe, 1960) that the original
manuscripts for these two and also for a third paper
were signed Einstein-Maric (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983,
p.97). [[And now one could ask]]: Would the male
editors have dropped the name of a male co-author,
or that of a woman who was not the author's wife?
Would not a male co-author have protested against
his name being dropped in the publication and would
he not have asked for some form of reparation?
Bang 6) Leipzig "Annals of Physics"
destroyed manuscripts of Einstein-Maric
The manuscripts, together with all the notes for
these three papers, are no longer existant.
The "New York Times" of February 15, 1944, wrote
about the manuscript of the theory of relativity
that Albert Einstein "had destroyed the original
after the theory had been published in 1905. An
$11,500,000 reward was promised to the person who
could bring the original manuscript to the Library
of Congress" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.72). It is
perhaps impossible now to show the extent of Mileva
Einstein-Maric's contribution and that of Albert
Einstein. But there are voices and countervoices:
Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric (1983, p.158) quotes Albert
Einstein's friend,
Bang 7) Einstein's short fruitful
mathematics period 1900-1905 was with Mileva
David Reichenstein: "It is strange how
fruitful that short period of his life was. not only
his special theory of relativity but a lot of other
basic papers bear the date 1905."
Leopold Infeld, one of his
biographers, remarked on "the irony of fate and the
external contradicitons" in Albert Einstein's life
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.158): "His most important
scientific work he wrote as a little civil servant
in the Patent Office in Bern."
Peter Michelmore, who had much
information from Albert Einstein, said
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.72): "Mileva helped him
solve certain mathematical problems. She was with
him in Bern and helped him
[p.419] when he
was having such a hard time with the theory of
relativity."
Hermann Minkowsky, a great
mathematician and a former professor of Albert
Einstein, who knew him well and was his friend, is
said to have remarked to Max Born: "This was a big
surprise to me because Einstein was quite a
lazybones and wasn't at all interested in
mathematics" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.74).
Bogdanovich, a mathematician in the
Ministry of Education in Belgrade who was well
acquainted with Mileva Einstein-Maric, is reported
to have said that she had always known that Mileva
Einstein-Maric had helped her husband a great deal,
especially with the mathemtical foundation of his
theory, but Mileva Einstein-Maric had always avoided
talking about it (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.164).
Mileva Einstein-Maric told her father during a visit
by Albert Einstein and herself in 1905: "A short
while ago we finished a very important work which
will make my husband world-famous"
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.75).
And the author, Trbuhovic-Gjuric herself, said the
following about the paper (1983, p.71):
<Its so pure, so unbelievably simple
and elegant in its mathematical formulation - of
all the revolutionary progress physics has made in
this century, this work is the greatest
achievement.
Even today when reading these yellowing pages
printed almost 80 years ago, one feels respect and
cannot but be proud that our great Serbian Mileva
Einstein-Maric participated in the discovery and
helped edit them. her intellect lives in those
lines. In their simplicity, the equations show
almost byond a doubt the personal style she always
demonstrated in mathematics and in life in
general. Her manner was always devoid of
unnecessary complications and of pathos>
and (p.72):
<In her work, she was not the
co-creator of his ideas, something no one else
cojld have been, but she did examine all his
ideas, then discussed them with him and gave
mathematical expression to his ideas about the
extension of Plank's quantum theory and about the
special theory of relativity ... Mileva
Einstein-Maric was the first person to tell Albert
Einstein after the completion of his paper: this
is a great, very great and beautiful work,
whereupon he sent it to the journal "Annalen der
Physik" [["Annals of Physics"]] in Leipzig.>
[The Nobel Prize money for Mileva]
When Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize in
1922, he had been separated from his wife, and
living with another woman in Berlin for eight years;
he had been divorced and remarried for three years.
[Einstein's alimony from Berlin from
1915 to 1923 was worthless due to the war
inflation in Germany during the First World War.
Mileva with her two sons was pushed into poverty
for 8 years. The sons were "brushed" and did not
forgive this to their macho father Albert
Einstein. If Einstein had stayed in Zurich, he
would have been able to build up a large
professorship with Mileva with many assistants and
new ideas].
However, [[in 1923]] he travelled to Zurich and
[[after large discussions]] gave the full financial
award, which came with the Nobel Prize, to his first
wife.
Many interpretations are possible, of course. People
say he turned over the Nobel Prize to his wife. This
is simply a harmonizing euphemism.
He was
the one who received the prize with all the honors,
he did not renounce it in her favor, and it was
he
who gave the lecture in Göteborg at the congress of
Nobel Prize winners. Perhaps he only gave the money
to his first wife because for eight years he had
hardly supported her and the two children at all
financially.
[because
his money from Berlin was nothing worth lany
more because of war inflation and hyper
inflation in 1923. Germans believed a long
time they would win the war, and the
hyperinflation of 1923 was wanted by German
Government mixing all for the landowners].
[The
divorce agreement of 1919 awards the future
prize money to Mileva]
The "Collected Papers of Einstein, Vol 1", suggest a
different reason. I was amazed to read there that
Mileva Einstein-Maric was given the Nobel Prize
money in accordance with the divorce agreement
("Collected Papers, Vol. 1", 1987, p.381). I asked
myself whether the divorce agreement of 1919
anticipated Einstein's Nobel Prize of 1922.
[Einstein was in Stockholm a topic for
Nobel prize since 1910. But since his robbery
tactic was known, he got the prize only in 1922
after the prediction of the stellar light
aberration during the eclipses of 1919 - because
the Rothschild media made pressure for him].
[Supplement: Since 1910, there were rumors in
Stockholm that Sintein would be a candidate for a
Nobel prize. However, since his robbery was known,
he got the prize only in 1922 after the prediction
of the stellar light aberration during the
eclipses of 1919 - under pressure from the
Rothschild media. Of course, the matter of the
stellar luz aberration during a solar eclipse was
discovered by other physicists in 1911 already
being confirmed by experiments in 1914 by other
physicists - but they remained without fame,
because Rothschild with his media power determines
who may become famous. So one can see: with
Einstein ALL ist stolen ...].
But let us assume that he was giving her private
recognition for her contribution which he had not
given her publicly. By then, he must have been aware
of how much he owed her mathematical genius; his own
genius was on the decline and he did not achieve
anything comparable after what is defined as his
"creative outburst of 1905". Again and again people
remarked on the fact that none of his later work,
after the age of 26, surpassed or even reached the
same level of his earlier research.
[since 1919: Einstein is going down - all
have to help him: Marcel Grossmann]
Since his second wife was chosen for different
reasons, ("I'm glad my second wife doesn't
understand anything about science because my first
wife did"),
he
needed at various points someone "to solve his
mathematical problems". He chose students or
friends: "I encountered mathematical
difficulties [p.420] which I cannot
conquer. I beg for your help, as I am apparently
going crazy" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.96) he
wrote to his friend Marcel Grossmann, who then
helped him.
Bang 8: Einstein in 1920 tells
himself in letters that he cannot high maths
[1920: Einstein tells in a letter to Ehrenfest
that he is going down]
In 1920, he wrote to Paul Ehrenfest as follows
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.155):
"... I did not make any progress in the
general theory of relativity.... Also on the
question of electrons I didn't come up with
anything. Is it my hardened brain or is the
breakthrough really that far off."
Whatever the case may have been, to quote the editor
of the fourth edition [[of the book "who doubted the
intellectualequality of Mileva Einstein-Maric to the
"century genius" Albert Einstein, it is interesting
to look at some self-evaluations of Albert Einstein
before he had to play teh role of genius of the
century. -- He said of himself that his intuition in
mathematics was not strong enough to differentiate
the essentially important from the more or less
superfluous (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.44). Besides
infinitesimal gemoetry
higher mathematics didn't interest
me in my years of studying. I wrongly
assumed that this was such a wide area that one
could easily waste one's energy in a far-off
province. Also, I thought in my innocence that it
was sufficient for the physicist to have clearly
understood the elementary mathematical concepts
and to have them ready for application while the
rest consisted of unfruitful subtleties for the
physicist, an error which I noticed only later. My
mathematical ability was apparently not sufficient
to enable me to differentiate the central and
fundamental concepts from those that were
peripheral and unimportant. (Trbuhovic-Gjuric,
1983, p.47)
Bang 9: ETH professors detect:
Einstein has NO knowledge about physics - only
Mileva supports Einstein
[1895-1900:
ETH professor Jean Pernet: Einstein has no
knowledge of physics]
Others agreed with his evaluation. An ETH professor,
Jean Pernet, advised him to study something else
other than physics (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.46):
"Studying physics is very difficult. You
don't lack diligence and good will but simply
knowledge. Why don't you study
medicine, law, or literature instead?"
[1900-1902: ETH professor Weber rejecting to give
Einstein an assistant post]
Professor Weber, another physicist and ETH
professor, for whom he did his thesis for the
diploma,
refused categorically to give Albert
Einstein an assistant post while giving
all his co-students assistantships after their exam.
[because
Einstein could not behave, was a
truant and a rebel, threw
instructions in the basket or
provoked explosions in the
laboratory etc.].
In addition, there was Mileva in
the same course as Einstein, who
then draw back her thesis in 1901
as a protest against Dr. Weber,
who did not want to give an
assistantship to this truant and
rebel Einstein. So Mileva had gone
crazy, that was her helper
syndrome].
[1895-1900: Einstein finds a "silly
mathematical transformation" - "you can prove
anything"]
A former student of Einstein recalls that Albert
Einstein got stuck in the middle of a lecture
missing a "
silly mathematical transformation"
which he couldn't figure out. Since none of the
students could either, he told them to leave half a
page empty and gave them the result. Ten minutes
later he discovered a small piece of paper and put
the transformation on the blackboard, remarking:
"The main thing is the result not the mathematics,
for
with mathematics you can prove anything"
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.88).
Bang 10: Mileva is the only one
believing in Einstein's "talent" of physics
1895-1900
[1895-1900: Mileva is playing the
"talent" for Einstein]
He did not have to worry about the proofs because
Mileva
Einstein-Maric was doing them. So
perhaps it was not so funny when he joked at a
congress: "Ever since the mathematicians have taken
up my theory of relativity, I don't understand it
any more myself" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.88).
The only person who believed in him and in his
great talent was Mileva Einstein-Maric.
She believed in him more than he did himself and so
he went his way, studying physics, gtetting through
exams, producing papers. He had her support and he
had her opinion and judgment, which was more
important to him than his own. Moreover, he had her
financial help when he did not earn enough, he had
the physical comfort provided by her in a home which
she kept up, later on he had children whom he did
not have to take care of and could simply enjoy. As
to his work, he had her companionship, her
diligence, her endurance, her mathematical genius,
and her mathematical devotion. He had someone he
needed, as he had told her father, someone who gave
herself up to working only for his success, someone
who was only interested in developing his abilities
and who was content with his succes.
She was
the ideal female partner for the years of his
greatest creativity, from about 1900 to 1910.
This is abbreviated by the male editors of Volume 1
of the "Collected Papers" in the following way: "Her
intellectual and personal relationships (sic!) with
the young Einstein played an important role in his
development" (Collected Papers, Vol. 1, 1987,
p.381).
[The
reality: Einstein's works from 1900 to 1919
are to a considerable extent the expression of
creativity of Mileva Maric].
Bang 11: Einstein let Mileva help in
maths instead of learning maths himself (!)
[Childhood and school times of Mileva
Maric - father=autodidact, military, public
official]
I will talk now about Mileva Einstein-Maric's life
as it is depicted in Desanka Trbuhovic-Gjuric's
book.
Mileva Einstein-Maric was a highly gifted woman who
came to study at the ETH, then Polytechnikum, in
Zurich, the fifth woman
[p.421] who had
ever studied in the Department VI A: Mathematics and
Physics, and the only woman in her year.
She was born in 1875, in what is now Yugoslavia, to
a mother who is characterized by Trbuhovic-Gjuric as
modest, quiet, and very serious, who came from a
wealthy family, and to a father who was an
autodidact, employed in the Austrian-Hungarian
military and the civil service. Although her father
supported her strongly from the beginning when he
realized her exceptional talent, her family could
not provide the intellectual climate and stimulating
environment into which, for example, Sonja
Kovalevskaja, Sophie Germain, Marie Curie, and other
women were born. People arond Mileva Einstein-Maric
reacted to her with astonishment and resistance and
she had to go her own solitary way.
She attended several secondary schools in
Yugoslavia, all of them with exceptional success,
and was then admitted as a private student to an
all-male Obergymnasium [[Supreme Grammar School]] in
Zagreb. After her first year there, she was
permitted to enter the physics class of that elite
school. At the age of 19, she decided to leave home
for a country that allowed women to attend
university. She went to Zurich to prepare in a
girls' school for her Matura [[A-level exams]], the
exam which qualifies students to enter university.
She studied medicine for one term and then changed
to mathematics and physics. To enter the ETH she had
to do an additional entrance examination in
mathematics.
[Are the entrance exams available?]
[1895-1962: Atmosphere of arrogant men in Polytechnikum
(since 1911: ETH): they simply don't want women
there]
Today we cannot imagine how lonely Mileva
Einstein-Maric must have felt during all her
schooling. Not only was she alone from the beginning
because of her unusual giftedness, because of her
academic interests and determination, but she was
also alone as the only girl in the elitist male
Gymnasium [[grammar school]] and the only woman in
the mathematics and physics department of the
elitist male ETH. Even today [[effective 1990]] the
ETH, with its one female full professor hired not
too long ago, is not a hospitable place for women
students. There are hardly any women studying
mathematics and physics, and even fewer becoming
assistants. We cannot imagine what the atmosphere
must have been like for Mileva Einstin-Maric when
she arrived to study there in 1896. The general
attitude was, and is, that women do not belong
there, so there are no positive expectations for
them in the heads of their male professors and they
are not promoted and mentored as the young bright
male students are, who immediately become members of
the male institution and begin to profit from their
privilege. I am sure none of her professors gave as
much as a thought to the possibility she might
succeed and pursue an academic career to the same
point they had reached themselves. They tolerated
her at best; she had to look out for herself.
[The
atmosphere against women: the poison of the
criminal Sigmund Freud
At the end of the 19th century, Sigmund Freud,
as a guru, dominated "modern" psychology with
his general difamation that all women were
"hysterical" in the case of doubt. This
spiritual poison spreads throughout the
"educated," male-dominated upper class of the
world, and therefore women are in a hopeless
situation. Then after Freud came Bleuler
claiming that anything that does not fit into
the picture was "schizophrenic", so that women
did not have a chance either. Only C.G. Jung
with neutral psychoanalysis has "neutralized"
the criminal psychologists Freud + Bleuler:
Freud and Bleuler came out as two psychotic
...]
[Zurich 1900: Mileva wanted to extend her
dissertation for a doctorial]
I do not believe that even the physics professor,
Weber, for whom she wrote her Diplomarbeit
[[dissertation]], which she wanted to extend into a
doctoral dissertation, thought about taking her on
as his assistant.
[Zurich 1900: The dissertations
about thermoconduction - Einstein 4.5, Mileva 4 -
why when Mileva was betterin maths?]
In a letter to a friend, Mileva Einstein-Maric wrote
that Professor Weber was very satisfied with her
topic and that she was looking forward to hear
research. She also mentions that Albert Einstein had
chosen a very interesting topic. Later on, Albert
Einstein said that both their Diplomarbeiten
[[dissertations]] were on the topic of
thermoconduction, and were of no interest to him. It
is interesting that he received a better grade,
namely, 4.5 for something which did not interest him
in the least, while Mileva Einstein-Maric received a
4 for something she was excited about (grades [[in
Swiss education system]] range from 1 to 6, 6 being
the highest). But it does not disagree with what we
know today about the way women and men are
evaluated.
[This seems to be the first diploma thesis of
Mileva in 1900 - the second diploma thesis of
1901 she then drew back in protest against
Dr.Weber who denied the truant + rebel
Einstein the assistantship - Mileva had a
helper syndrome!].
[Zurich and whole world 1900: Men are
rating women worse: ETH, BBC etc. - women write
under male pseudonyms for having success (!)]
"It is a prevalent finding", write Gruber and
Gaebelein (1979, p.299) "that men and women are not
evaluated equally (Rosenkrantz et al., 1968; Elman,
Press, & Rosencrantz, 1970) even when they
produce objectively the same results (Goldberg,
1968; Pheterson, Kiesler, & Goldberg, 1971;
Mischel, 1974; Starer & Denmark, 1974)." It
begins very earhly. Condry and Condry (1976) showed
that the same baby's behavior was perceived
differently when it had been given a girl's name
from when it had a boy's name. the difference was in
the eye of the beholder. Identical texts were
evaluated more negatively when they carried the name
of a female athor (Goldberg, 1968). What is in a
name? Everything seems to be in a name. Evaluation
of identical scholarly work apparently changes if
the sex or race of the authors deviate from the
norm, that is, white male, preferably of Anglo
Saxon, Protestant back-
[p.422] ground [6].
[6]
A brilliant analysis of the politics of naming
and defining is given by Bosmajian (1974) in
his book "The Language of Oppression", which
deals with the language of white racism and
sexism, as well as with the language of
anti-semitism, Indian derision, and war.
The 19th-century writers - George Eliot, George
Sand, Anne, Charlotte, and Emly Bronte - who wrote
under male pseudonyms knew that the expectations of,
reactions to, and evaluations of women's writing
were not neutral and were not advantageous to them.
Evaluation of content and of source are inseparably
interwoven. Our perception and evaluation is
different for women and men (Nieva & Gutek,
1980; Geis, Carter, & Butler-Thompson, 1982).
Why else would it have been necessary to change the
practice of evaluating abstracts for conference
partidipation and articles for publication together
with authors' names? Deleting the names of the
authors had as an interesting consequence that more
women and minority authors are now participating in
conferences and more of their work is now being
published in professional journals. But even today,
profesional women cannot expect to be granted the
same credibility and authority when they speak.
Women news readers especially are faced with the
problem (Whitaker & Meade, 1967). the reasons
for the disastrous experience of the first BBC women
news readers (Kramarae, 1984) are still working
against women today (Kramarae, 1988; Mills, 1988;
Sanders & Rock, 1988).
[Tesis: Sigmund Freud was against all
women - and upper class copied Sigmund Freud -
all women were in danger for being called
"hysteric"
The macho Sigmund Freud with his primitive
"will"-psychology was the main force against the
understanding of women claiming that all women
would be hysteric or at least all women would be a
risk for being hysteric without control. This was
a GUIDELINE blocking women from school systems,
from carrers and from politics - in criminal
Switzerland this block was partly until 1989 when
the Federal Court gave women the right to vote in
Appenzell Innerrhoden - against the votes of the
men there (!)].
[Zurich and whole world 1900: The teachers joking
against women in the class teaching prejudices]
Many researchers show that the attention and
interaction of teachers in the classroom focuses on
boys (Thorne, Kramarae, & Henley, 1983; Spender,
1982); these results must hold all the morre for
college and university teaching because the sex-role
expectations are stronger for adult women than for
little girls. Treichler and Kramarae (1983)
attribute the chilly atmosphere in the college
classroom experienced by many women today to typical
male patterns of interaction. Additionally, we have
research on the general bias against competent women
(Hagen & Kahn, 1975; Piacente et al., 1974;
Seyfried & Hendricks, 1973) and the specific
bias against women in the academy (Farley, 1982;
Spencer, Kehoe, & Speece, 1982; Rossi &
Calderwood, 1973; Abramson, 1975; Howe, 1975; DeSole
& Hoffman, 1961; Haber, 1981).
[Evaluation of women as students with prejudices
without end - professors have negative mentality
against women]
The consequences of such bias severly influence the
evaluation of women as students today. How much
harder must the first women to enter university have
been bombarded by prejudice against them. I wonder
what grades the first women received who came from
all over Europe to study in Zurich and then returned
to their own countries to open the first medical
practices run by women, or to found the first
mediacl and law schools for women. I wonder how much
the attitude that they did not belong to the
university was reflected in their evaluations, male
professors confirming their own prejudice against
women by giving them the corresponding grades. It is
only very recently that a tendency has been reported
- unfortunately, only in women - that negative
evaluation of women is changing. Some women, it
seems, are beginning to accept women's work and may
judge it as equal to a man's (Chabot & Goldberg,
1974; Mischel, 1974; Levenson et al., 1975).
[1900: Swiss university system fights and
blocks intelligent women]
It is amazing that we still fail to apply the
knowledge we have, knowledge about the unfair
evaluation of women, knowledge about discriminatory
mechanisms in academia, to the women we read about
in the history of science or literature or to the
live women we see as our colleagues or students.
If I apply some of these findings, and some of what
I know about the Swiss university system then and
today, to what I read about Mileva Einstein-Maric, I
am not surprised that she did not receive either a
Diplom [[diploma]] or a doctorate.
[FALSE: Mileva did her presented her
second diploma thesis but withdrew it in protest
against Dr. Weber, who denied the truant and rebel
Einstein an assistant position - that was a
suicide of Mileva with her helper syndrome (!)].
[CH-"USA"-Berlin 1880-1901: The case of Dr. jur.
Emilie Kempin-Spyri - blocked to death by the men]
The Swiss university before the turn of the century,
and that means the Swiss academic men, let their
first woman lawyer, who had the highest
qualifications for an academic career, starve rather
than give her a professorship. Dr. jur. Emilie
Kempin-Spyri (1853-1901) was the first woman in the
world to study law. She received her doctorate,
"summa cum laude", in 1887, from hte University of
Zurich. After that, she found that she could not
practice law because it was bound to active
citizenship [[being authorized to vote. Women hat no
right to vote]]. She went to court and was told that
her interpretation of
"Every Swiss is equal before the law"
to mean every Swiss man
and every Swiss
woman was just as new as it was daring. The only
route left was an academic career. She tried
Habilitation [[habilitation]], but it was refused by
all the university authorities and by the state
(1888). She emigrated to the [[racist]] United
States where she founded the First Woman Law
College, but since her family was not happy in the
United States, she returned to Switzerland and made
a new attempt at Habilitation. This time, the
[p.423]
faculty agreed, the senate [[of the university]]
voted NO but was overruled by the state educational
committee, and she received the "venia legendi" for
Roman, Anglo-Saxon, and American Law (1891).
However, she was not taken seriously by colleagues
or students: her lectures were not attended enough
and she did not receive a professorship. Her family
did not have enough money to live since her
husband's career as a journalist did not flourish.
The family moved to Berlin where she opened a
consulting office for international law. Her husband
left her - a familiar pattern - and she had to take
care of herself and their two chilren. She worked
herself to death, but could not make a living and
incurred debts. In 1899, she was admitted to a
psychiatric institution in Basel with a nervous
breakdown; friends had to pay for the expenses. When
she felt better, she applied for a position as a
household help (Woodtli, 1975, p.98):
"In spite of my studying, I have not
forgotten the abilities of a housewife; ... I only
began to study at a later age when I already had
children, then three and four years old. Therefore
I can also cook, sweep, sew, especially make new
clothes from old ones; I love all children and
like to be with them, and I am willing to do any
work whatsoever, including doing the dishes and
cleaning the house. I will also take care of the
garden if you desire me to. "
She then writes that she is extremely modest in what
she wants and needs for herself, that because of her
financial situation, she will suffer anything
willingly. She would be satisfied with a monthly pay
of 10 Swiss francs, but would not insist on it. If
they wanted to hire her by trial and without pay for
a month, this would be fine. Signed: Dr. Emilie
Kempin [7].
[7]
Cf: Woodtli (1975, pp.93-98).
Fortunately, she died of cancer before she could
accept the position as a maid - the first woman
lawyer in the world literally starving for
recognition of her achievement, not left a morsel of
success by, I do not know how many, mediocre and bad
male lawyers in Switzerland and Germany, dying in a
psychiatric institution at the age of 48.
[Kempin case: she gets a requiem]
A requiem based on her letter was composed recently
by Patricia Jünger [[from Basel - web02]], the first
requiem for a woman by an Austrian [[Swiss - web03]]
composer, performed [[in 1986 - web01]] at the
Donaueschingen Festival for Avantgarde Music and
honored with the Karl Sczuka Prize [[15,000 DM -
web02]]. If we looked at the lives of women studying
at that time, perhaps almost every woman having
studied then would deserve a requiem.
As for Swiss universities today, suffice it to say
that in 1983 Switzerland could count 40 women full
professors (compared with over 2,000 men full
professors), which is certainly an achievement in
the 150 years since the first woman appeared as
auditors at the university. At this rate, Swiss
universities may actually reach 10% in another 600
years.
[Remark: women teacher's
celibate against married women in Germany
1880-1951 and in Zurich 1912-1962
In the Emperor's Germany, women were forbidden to
give lectures when they became married, this was
the law from 1880 to 1919 and from 1923 to 1951,
in Baden-Württemberg until 1956. Racist Zurich had
women teacher's celibate against married women
from 1912 to 1962, so just after the diplomas of
the Einstein and Mileva, the block of teaching for
married women was installed. It can be assumed
that this women teacher's celibate was provoked by
criminal Sigmund Freud who defined women generally
"hysteric" and did NOT UNDERSTAND ANYTHING of
women].
[Tesis of Plötz: Mileva would have made a
great carreer without Einstein (?!)]
But going back
to Mileva Einstein-Maric, there is another
factor which we should consider (and which not
surprisingly is also at play in Emilie
Kempin-Spyri's life). Mileva Einstein-Maric most
certainly would have gotten both her Diplom
[[diploma]] and her doctorate had she not met
Albert Einstein.
[Tesis:
Then she just would have had fallen in love
with another man for being exploited - she had
a helper syndrome].
When she fell in love, she worked together WITH him.
Or rather, when they worked together, she fell in
love with him. Once she was committed to him,
however, she worked
for him instead of for
herself - out of love. She may not even have noticed
the difference at first because she kept working
more than ever, but her love did change her very
strong dedication to her studies in that she no
longer pursued them in the interest of her own
career, but rather of his.
[Switzerland 1880-1970: women in Switzerland are
allowed to study - but are BLOCKED for working in
a university]
At that time, as a matter of course, the other women
at the Swiss institutions of higher learning
immediately dropped their scientific interests and
their work once they got married, so as to take up
their duties as housewives and mothers. They had
come as the most brilliant and gifted women from all
over Europe, they had gained access to the Swiss
universities as auditors because they were deemed
harmless enough, then as regular students with the
help of some German male professors, expatriates
from the German university [[system]] for political
reasons, thus opening for Swiss women students the
way to the university. All of them willingly gave up
their academic inclination once their "real calling"
began. Those who wanted to combine their academic
life with a family were literally destroyed, like
Kempin-Spyri and Mileva Einstein-Maric.
[Tesis: This block of women was because
of criminal Sigmund Freud calling all women
hysteric. Men did NOT WANT to understand what the
needs of women really are. In Catholic Church it'
like this today yet (2019) that women are rated
generally as "dangerous" because Cacholic men are
only praying against love every day and become
impotent with 40...].
[Missing social services for intelligent
women]
Women today still have to choose and do choose
between children and professionallife in Switzerland
[p.424], and in Germany as well [8].
[8]
For some of the concrete conditions of
combining the care of school-age children with
a profession in both countries, cf.
Troemel-Ploetz (1990).
And even in the United States today, a scientific
career and marriage cannot be combined completely
unproblematically. Reskin (1978, p.17) states:
"Possibly the best situation for a
female scientist is marriage to a professional in
another discipline. Her marital status would
facilitate her social and professional
integration, and the disciplinary difference would
reduce the chance of her husband's receiving
credit for her research contributions."
Bang 12: Self-sacrifice by Mileva in
1900 for Albert Einstein after his 4.91 diploma
not getting an assistant post: she withdraws her
excellent dissertation in protest - no diploma for
her
[Zureich 1900: Mileva fights for Albert Einstein,
who is under Dr. med. Weber had 4.91 not reaching
5.0 and does not get an assistant position -
risking her own diploma - Mileva is committing
self-sacrifice (!) - but this Albert Einstein was
the worst and his mark was under 5.0 (!)]
From Trbuhovic-Gjuric's book, it seems that Mileva
Einstein-Maric jeopardized her promising
collaborative relationship with Professor Weber
because she fought for Albert Einstein when he, as
the only student out of four, did not receive an
assistantship after the Diplom examination at the
ETH.
[Diploma of Albert Einstein with 4.91
- to get rid of him?
Albert Einstein had an average of 4.91 for his
diploma and principally he did NOT pass because
the Polytechnic Highschool required a clear 5.0
for passing. So the professors donated the diploma
to the rebel Albert Einstein and let him "just
slip through" [web04]. Weber refused him an
immediate job as an assistant. The professors
probably rightly said that Einstein had missed so
many lectures, always copied from others and often
rebelled in the internships, and now he is also
under 5.0, so he should first go somewhere else
looking for something. It may be that the whole
thing was just a maneuver to get rid of Einstein.
Therefore investigation is needed:
-- Einstein's exams and dissertation as well as
the exams and dissertations of the fellow students
should be revised
-- there should exist letters from Mileva to Weber
at the Weber family with the appeal for the rebel
Einstein
-- there should still exist minutes from the
sessions of the Physics leaders of the Polytechnic
Highschool when the case of Einstein and Maric was
discussed [conclusion - web05].
Weber had categorically declared that he did not
want Albert Einstein as an assistant. I do not know
whether one of the three men students also fought
for Albert Einstein and by doing so risked his
relationship with Weber. One of them, Albert
Einstein's friend Marcel Grossmann, at least later
on, got his father to use his connections and get
Albert Einstein his first full-time position (at the
Swiss Patent Office, Bern).
[Mileva's helper syndrome for Einstein: Mileva
Maric INVENTS an "unfairness" (!) - Mileva
Maric withdraws her own diploma thesis in protest
(!)]]
Mileva Einstein-Maric, in any case, had conflicts
with Weber because she wanted him to see his
unfairness [[?]] to Albert Einstein who, in his
final exam,
had an average [[4.91]] quite a
bit below that of the other three men candidates.
Did she ever give any thought to the possibility of
fighting for an assistantship for herself? Did any
one of her fellow students fight for her? ¨Would
Albert Einstein, had he been in her position, have
fought for her at the expense of his career? I think
we can answer the last question because Albert
Einstein did not do anything for her, never mind any
fighting for her, even when it would no onger have
harmed his career. -- Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes (1983,
p.59):
"She went so far to eventually
[[finally]] withdraw her excellent
Diplomarbeit [[tesis]], stopped her
research with him [=Weber, ST-P], and in August
1901, left the Polytechnikum for good."
[1900: Thesis: The evaluation of Dr. med. Weber
on Einstein and on Mileva: Albert = raven bad
and Mileva = hysterical with helper syndrome
Dr. Weber will have told himself:
-- This woman Mileva Maric is blind with love and
does not want to accept the fact that the Albert
Einstein just can not do a polytechnic
-- Albert Einstein is also so bad because he just
missed lectures and rebelled so much
-- and when Mrs. Mileva Maric is so blind with
love, then, according to Sigmund Freud, she is
"hysterical", unpredictable and then one should
not permit a diploma to her
-- but finally Mileva has failed because she
herself WITHDREW her own tesis as a protest
against Dr. Weber - and this is the helper
syndrome which was only defined in 1977 (!)]
Again, the consequences for the woman were different
from those for the man. Albert Einstein, who had the
primary conflict with Weber, got his Diplomarbeit
[[dissertation]] (which he was not interested in)
graded better than hers, he got his degree (Diplom),
he even started his doctoral dissertation with Weber
and when that did not work out, someone else
(Kleiner) was found with whom he continued. Even
when Kleiner refused it or advised him to withdraw
in 1901, it did not keep him from getting his
doctorate four years later [[in Bern]].
[1900: Mileva remains without degree - Einstein
rated her as a PhD - Einstein was exploiting her
(!!!)]
Mileva Einstein-Maric ended up without any degree
whatsoever, although Albert Einstein had envisaged
her as a PhD [[Dr. Phil.]] when he would still be
"ein ganz gewöhnlicher Mensch" ("a totally ordinary
human being") ("Collected Papers, Vol. 1", 1987,
p.260). While she was working on her dissertation
and preparing for her exam, she also had other
duties. Mileva Einstein-Maric's friends thought that
Albert Einstein was exploiting her too much. This
was said just at the time when both of them were
writing their Diplomarbeiten [[dissertations]] and
before the final oral examinations.
[since 1902: Mileva has her child given away -
has Weber as an enemy - has the Jewish Einstein
parents as enemies - and still supports
Einstein]
After the exam, from the middle of 1900 to the
middle of 1902, a very difficult time began for both
of them. Albert Einstein could not get any position
he applied for, although he tried again and again.
Mileva Einstein-Maric was pregnant with a child by
Albert Einstein, gave birth to it in 1902, out of
wedlock, and evidently had to give it up for
adoption [[by financial reasons or because she was
outlawed by her family?]]. Albert Einstein's parents
objected to Mileva Einstein-Maric as a person, and
to the planned marriage. Mileva Einstein-Maric stuck
with him, stuggling against the external world, be
it Weber or Albert Einstein's parents, supporting
him when he got rejected and, above all, working
with him ("Collected Papers, Vol.1", 1987, p.275):
"Wir leben und arbeiten immer noch wie früher" ("we
are living and working the way we did earlier",
meaning: as students).
[since 1900: Einstein confirms more collaboration
with Mileva - in letters (!)]
This collaboration is reflected also in Albert
Einstein's letters:
In September 1900, almost immediately after his
exam, Albert Einstein writes to Mileva
Einstein-Maric:
"Ich freue mich auch sehr auf unsere
neuen Arbeiten" ("I am also looking forward very
much to our new papers") ("Collected Papers,
Vol.1, 1987, p.260).
In a letter of October 1900, the letter in which he
calls her his equal, he again refers to common work
on capillarity, which they will send to the [[review
of]] "Annalen" [[Annals of Physics in Leipzig]] if
it should turn out
[p.425] to be successful
("Collected Papers, Vol.1", 1987, p.267).
In a letter of March 1901, Albert Einstein writes to
Mileva Einstein-Maric:
"How happy and proud I will be when both
of us together will have brought our work on
relative motion to a successful end" ("Collected
Papers, Vol.1", 1987, p.282).
[April 1901: Albert Einstein claims: "our
research" and "our papers"]
In a letter of April 1901, he is talking about "
our
research" and "
our papers",
referring to what was published under only his name
as "Folgerungen aus den Capillaritätserscheinungen"
[["Conclusions Drawn from the Phenomena of
Capillarity"]] in [[the review of]] Annales der
Physik [[Annals of Physics in Leipzig]] 4 (1901)
("Collected Papers Vol.1", 1987, p.286).
[May 1901: Albert Einstein claims:
"continue together on that beautiful road"]
In a letter of May 1901, he is referring to the same
paper again by "our paper" and says,
"If only we had a chance soon to continue
together on that beautiful road"
("Collected Papers, Vol.1", 1987, p.300).
In a letter of the same month he writes:
"Think how beautiful it will be when we
are able again to work together
without any disturbance and interference from
outside! Your present sorrows will be brilliantly
replaced by sheer pleasure and our days will pass
quietly without any hectic" ("Collected Papers,
Vol.1", 1987, p.304).
[since 1903: tight collaboration
Einstein-Mileva after marriage]
Albert Einstein's wish would come true even though
the time was not so quiet and unhectic for Mileva
Einstein-Maric. Their collaboraiton became even more
intensive beginning in 1903, when they got married.
Whereas before, they had to spend some time apart,
they now had uninterrupted time together. --
Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes (1983, p.68):
"The marriage of these two very
different, highly gifted people was very happy at
that time. She was happy with him - content to
work for him and around him. She carried the full
burden of everyday life; he could spend his time
on his work and she heloped him not only with her
knowledge but also with her confidence in him, and
her stimulating energy. She was overjoyed that he
valued and loved her for these characteristics
which distinguished her from other women. She made
it possible for him to have a quiet, ordered life,
free of worry. The congenial sides of her
personality caused resonances of harmony in him."
[1904:
first son Hans Albert Einstein -
Mileva's brother in Zurich babysitting]
Things changed slightly when their first child
(in wedlock) was born in May 1904. Mileva
Einstein-Maric's work increased, but she still
supported, and worked with, Albert Einstein.
When her brother studied in Zurich, he became
her helper, babysitting for the child, and this
allowed her time to check her husband's
computations.
[1909-1910: Einstein becomes professor at
Zurich University - students are living in the
house - Mileva solving Einstein's math
problems until well after midnight - Einstein
is only a dishwasher and CANNOT DO ANY
MATHEMATICS YET (!)]
In 1909, Albert Einstein received a professorship
at the University of Zurich. His
income was better than in Bern but, to give him
more financial independence, Mileva
Einstein-Maric took in student lodgers
who lived and ate with them. Mileva
Einstein-Maric strained her physical limits. A
student of Albert Einstein reports coming to his
apartment (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.87):
"The
door was open, the steps and the hallway were
wet from cleaning, and his wife, after all
this work, was standing in the kitchen cooking
the midday meal with her sleeves rolled up."
A
mathematician of the University of Zagreb
recalled that Albert Einstein every now and then
helped his wife doing the household chores
because he felt sorry that after her housework
was done, she had to do his mathematical
problems till way past midnight
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.87).
But Mileva Einstein-Maric did not tire and was
happy about her husband's success. She wrote to
her friend Helene on September 3, 1909
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.87):
My husband is at a congress of German
natural scientists in Salzburg at the moment where
he is to give a talk. He is considered among the
first German speaking physicists now. I am very
happy about his successes because he really
deserves them.
[And this
Mr. Einstein never learns high math -
although he lives with a mathematician -
and she doesn't teach him - but they are
always mixing identities. Einstein and
Mileva want to remain identity fakers...]
[1910-1914:
Mileva with two sons - 2 years in Prague -
Einstein becomes professor at ETH - no time
for family life]
The birth of their second son, July 1910, meant
even more work. She had already given up all her
personal interests. Her health was
deteriorating. A doctor predicted she was
ruining her health and suggested that Albert
Einstein should earn a bit more money. From then
on, Mileva Einstein-Maric's contribution to the
mathematical work of her husband diminished
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.89). Albert Einstein
began to ask advanced students and friends for
help. -- In 1911, they moved to Prague where
Albert Einstein had been offered a professor- [p.426]
ship in theoretical physics. Their marriage was
no longer happy. In 1912 they returned to
Zurich; this time the ETH offered Albert
Einstein a profesorship. The hopes that Mileva
Einstein-Maric might have had for repairing
their marriage in the city where they had
studied together and fallen in love, after
Albert Einstein's wish to teach at his alma
mater had been fulfilled, did not materialize.
Her health became worse. She writes her friend
Helene Kaufler on March 17, 1913, that her
husband did not have time for his family any
more.
Bang 13: In 1914, Einstein's
Jewish family does not recognize the marriage
between Einstein and the Orthodox Christian
Mileva (!) - Jewish racism against Mileva, and
Einstein accepts that (!)
[1914: Max Planck lures Einstein to
Berlin - Einstein's Jewish family rejects the
Christian Mileva, does not recognize the
marriage (!)]
Albert Einstein tells Max Born
about his interest in going to Berlin; half a
year later, Max Planck comes to
talk with him about the specific conditions of
the position. They are so good that Albert
Einstein cannot resist. By the end of the year,
he is a member of the Prussian Academy of
Science and has accepted the offer to become
director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for
Physics.
[Supplement:
Zionist manipulation with Einstein
Criminal Zionist Jewish circles are
manipulating Einstein for Israel propaganda
driving all Jews into the desert against
Muslims - in: Christopher Jon Bjerknes: Albert
Einstein: The Incorrigible Plagiarist - 2002].
Mileva
Einstein-Maric did not understand why they
should move to Berlin. Although they became more
and more estranged, she did not want to be an
impediment to him, and so they moved to Berlin
in April 1914.
[March
1914: Einstein goes to Berlin
for installing - in April
1914 Mileva comes with the
two sons]
(in: Wasmayr: Die Tragödie -
2004)
Mileva
Einstein-Maric had no friends there and disliked
Germany. Albert Einstein, however, had close
relatives with whom he kept in close contact.
Mileva Einstin-Maric had no access to these
circles, they did not acknowledge
their marriage and objected to her.
[Einstein betrays his family with his
two sons
-- Einstein follows his relatives and tells the
Mileva by letter that he will act emotionless
against her when other women come
-- Einstein is constantly being picked up by other
women in the evening, and Mileva has to spend the
night without Einstein, and the kids see all this
when other Berlin women "take away" their father -
and Einstein allows it all (Ripota: Einstein's
unique Insights - German: Einsteins einmalige Einsichten
- 2018)
-- Mileva can not accept all this and she decides
to return to Zurich]
In July,
Mileva Einstein-Maric left with both children
[[shotly before the outbreak of WWI]] for the
summer holidays to Zurich [[being acompanies by
friend Michele Besso (in: Wasmayr:
Die Tragödie - 2004)]];
Albert Einstein stayed in Berlin.
[-- Einstein permits that he is ordered
by his Jewish family with whom he should live
with! Einstein is an eternal child, a bubi
-- how the sons will have hated this Einstein
family!
-- and poverty will come yet!]
Bang 14: Einstein during WWI in
Berlin on the looser's side - German inflation -
Einstein's money has no value - Mileva+2 sons 8
years in poverty
[WWI:
German money is loosing value - Mileva
without money - secret loan - private
lessons]
The First world War started. Albert Einstein
advised his wife to stay in Switzerland; he
refused to join them, saying that the war had no
influence on his work [[work=among others:
fucking around with famous women]]. Mileva
Einstin-Maric thought his work was the only
reason keeping him in Berlin - in reality, he
had found another woman, a second cousin and an
appropriate partner for him now, and he quickly
moved in with her. Mileva Einstein-Maric had to
take care of the two children (now 4 and 10) by
herself. She had no regular income. Albert
Einstein did not send money regularly or in
sufficient amoujnts. She was too proud to ask
her family for help. Also, her children were not
supposed to know that there was no money to pay
for the lodging house or for their clothes. She
went hungry. She wanted to give music lessons
but could not leave the children alone. She
finally asked a friend, who had to promise utter
discretion, for a loan. When Albert Einstein
eventually sent money, she could rent an
apartment. He promised to take care of his
family.
She started to give private lessons in
mathematics and Italian. She sent birthday gifts
to Albert Einstein in Berlin. One year after she
had left Berlin, Albert Einstein came to Zurich.
He gave no answers to his wife's and his older
son's questions about his plans for the future
of the family. When back in Berlin, he again
sent money irregularly and, due to devaluation,
it was worth less and less. Mileva
Einstein-Maric refused help from friends. She
heard that Albert Einstein had moved in with his
cousin, who loved luxury and fame, and fitted
his present stage of life as a famous physicist.
Mileva Einstein-Maric still hoped for his
return. Common friends of the Einsteins in
Zurich stood by her side, advised him against a
divorce and reminded him of his responsibility
to the family he had founded, his responsibility
as a father.
Bang 15: Mileva has not
recognized her helper syndrome and the
"science" of Freud simply says "hysterical"
[since 1915: discussion about divorce -
Mileva becomes sick with several heart
attacks]
He asked his wife for a divorce, not without
promising her that "he would remain faithful to
her in his way". She kept that letter.
Trbuhovic-Gjuric writes that when Albert
Einstein failed to be moved at all by the
suffering of his wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric
knew that the separation was final, that she had
lost for good the man to whom she had
subordinated all her abilities, dreams, and
aspirations (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.119).
[Mileva never recognized her helper
syndrome - and male "science" with alcohol
festivities celebrates the "hysteria" of women
-- the helper syndrome was only clearly defined in
psychology in 1977, by the psychoanalyst Mr.
Wolfgang Schmidbauer in his famous book "helpless
helpers" (original German: Die hilflosen Helfer -
Amazon
link)
-- "science" about women was blocked by criminal
Mr. Sigmund Freud and the stupid alcoholic upper
class calling all difficulties of women
"hysterical"].
Mileva
Einstein-Maric became sick, had to give the
children to her friend Helene, had heart
attacks and was admitted and
readmitted to three hospitals. The younger
child, Eduard, aged 7, stayed with her in one
hospital, the other with Professor Zangger, who
tried to get a position for Albert Einstein
again at the University of Zurich. Finally, her
sister came from Yugoslavia to take care of her.
[Feb.14, 1919: divorce - Einstein with
stomach ulcer+first heart attack - class at
University, trips - marriage in Berlin -
German money withou value]
The divorce was on February 14, 1919. That year
brought Albert Einstein a stomach ulcer and his
first heart attack. It also
brought him a return to the University of Zurich
to teach one class, visits with his family,
trips with his sons, and when he got married to
his cousin, the turning away from him by his
older son who was 15 years old.
In the following years, Einstein kept visiting
Zurich and his family, but he could not [p.427]
take care of his family in Zurich financially
because of the devaluation of the German mark
[[Reichsmark]].
[Einstein
travels back
and forth
between Berlin
and the League
of Nations in
Geneva and
"passes" on
the way in
Zurich.
(from: Barbara
Wolff: What
happened to
the prize
money?
(original
German: Was
geschah mit
dem Preisgeld?
- 2019) -
web06)]
[Einstein was
in peace
groups in the
League of
Nations until
1923. When
nothing was
done against
French
occupation of
Central
Germany,
Einstein quit
this League of
Nations -
web07].
[In 1923 then, Einsteins hands over the Nobel
prize money to Mileva. The truth is, he just
wanted to give her the interest and invest the
prize money in the "USA". But after 8 years of
poverty Mileva wants the "whole thing"
[web06]. Mileva buys house and thinks herself
safe, but then in 1929, capitalism is
organizing the world wide economic crisis, and
in the same year the younger son "explodes"
and is classified by the criminal psychiatry
as "schizophrenic" without checking the
causes].
[since 1929: son Eduard with rebellion
against everything - Einstein family claims
that this would come from Mileva's family]
In 1929, the younger son, Eduard, now 19, became
psychotic. From then on, Mileva Einstein-Maric
hat to take care of him, taking him to doctors,
paying for the enormous psychiatric expenses
because he was in and out of the Burghölzli
[[psycholocig experiment area for electroshocks,
water torture and toxic pills etc. under Mr.
Bleuler]], a psychiatric hospital [[terrorism
site]] in Zurich, and especially dealing with
the outbursts in which he destroyed furniture,
tried to strangle her, wrote of his hate to his
father whose fault it was, so he thought, that
he had lost his mind.
In Albert Einstein's family, there was certainty
that he had inherited this disease from his
mother's side.
[Criminal
Jewish Einstein family against Mileva and
son Eduard - Einstein is failing COMPLETELY
-- the Jewish Einstein family has not only
destroyed the marriage between Albert and
Mileva by eternal religious war, but
-- this Jewish Einstein family is now
inventing a heredity for "schizophrenia" and
therefore misses the opportunity to establish
a psychoanalysis
-- so Albert Einstein lets drop now not only
Mileva but also his son Eduard, and with this,
Albert Einstein is failing in ALL psychologic
matters and is NO philosopher for sure but he
is a criminal show animal (conclusion -
web05)].
[since 1929: Einstein stopping talking about
Zurich family - Mileva at secondary school
- Eduard with a security man]
Albert Einstein stopped talking about his first
marriage. His money came irregularly. Mileva
Einstein-Maric taught physics in a secondary school.
Eduard needed a constant male caretaker. He
complained about constant ear aches. He had bouts of
schizophrenia. Mileva Einstein-Maric could not help
him. Having him at home took all of her remaining
strength.
[Switzerland = Rothschild money
island - wars around Switzerland - D is to break
every 50 years - and the Einstein did not know
that
Eduard was rebelling against
injustice in life - and he did not know the
following:
-- cr. Shitzerland (with bank secret and poison
pharma and Nestlé) is the Zionist Rothschild money
island in continental Europe, and all around can
be destroyed by wars, so that all money flows into
Switzerland, which always remains intact, and
-- Germany must be destroyed every 50 years,
because that's how the Zionist Rothschilds in
London have Europe in their hands, because when
Germany is destroyed, 50% of the industrial
production in Europe is destroyed
-- Albert Einstein did NOT know that, and Eduard
Einstein's mental state was broken by these
circumstances and the behavior of his father's
religious racist Jewish family and of his father's
behavior (leaving the family, going to Germany,
not even coming back after the war's defeat)
so, that's why Eduard shattered things and
furniture in anger, why he wanted to "break"
(strangle) others' lives out of anger because
those circumstances were shattering his life, but
unfortunately he had no idea of the political
causes - (conclusion [web05])].
[since 1919: Mileva's brother not returning from
Russia - father died - mother died - sister
died]
The fate of her family in Yugoslavia brought her
additional suffering: her gifted brother never
returned from Russian military imprisonment; her
younger sister slowly became mentally ill; her
father died of heartbreak; her mother died at 88;
her sister died young in 1938. Mileva Einstein-Maric
had remained attached to her homeland throughout her
life, and loved the Bačka [[Backa, Batshka]].
[Mileva rejects any new marriage whereas
she was well known in Zurich for sure].
[Novi Sad 1929: Bridge of son Hans Albert over
the Danube]
Her son, Hans Albert, had done the static
computations for a bridge over the Danube, built in
1929. During her last visit to Novi Sad, after her
sister's death [[1938]], she asked to be taken to
the bridge, part of the reparations paid by Germany
after WWI. She was very moved when she saw it, but
did not say a word. For her, writes
Trbuhovic-Gjuric, this bridge was more than a means
of connecting the wide bankds of the Danube, it
brought to realization an idea of her son in her
motherland. She was not to see that son again, and
the bridge was destroyed in WWII (Trbuhovic-Gjuric,
1983, p.171).
Bang 16: Mileva Einstein in 1948 is
kicked out of her flat shortly before death of
1948 - for Einstein this does not matter - he
is retired and does not come to Zurich -
Einstein lets die Mileva alone
[1930-1948: Mileva with illnesses -
Eduard with aggressions and high costs - Mileva
kicked out of her flat - death August 4, 1948]
Mileva Einstein-Maric's health deteriorated further,
and so now, at times, she lifted the veil of her
proud silence and talked with friends about the fact
that Albert Einstein did not care about his sick
son. A friend, Dr. Ada Broch, reminded Albert
Einstein in a letter of his responsibility and asked
him to send money. Mileva Einstein-Maric visited
Eduard in the [[psychiatric terrorism site]]
Burghölzli, in walking across town in snow and ice,
she broke her leg, had to stay in hospital and felt
death coming on. She worried about what would become
of Eduard, by himself, with his father and brother
far off in the United States. On January 3, 1948,
she was notified that she would have to leave her
apartment in the house she had once owned. She had
thought she had the right to live there until she
died.
[Supplement: The house was sold
twice - the clause to stay in the house was no
longer valid
In the sales contract was on Einstein's advice a
clause included that she may stay in her
apartment. However, the house was resold within
about 2 months, and then this clause was void and
Mileva had to look for a smaller, cheap apartment
- see Barbara Wolff: What happened to the prize
money? (German: Was geschah mit dem Preisgeld? -
2019) - web 06]
In May 1948, Eduard had another schizophrenic
attack. Mileva Einstein-Maric broke down and was
taken to a clinic. She was paralyzed on the left
side of her body. She wanted to visit her son in the
Burghölzli and kept ringing the bell. The bell was
turned off. She lost consciousness. Her son visited
her daily before her death. The day before her
death, she regained full consciousness. She died on
August 4, 1948, at the age of 73.
[Supplement: Mileva with 87,000
francs in the hospital
At hospital admission Mileva secretly takes 87,000
francs in notes, which are then found in the
hospital. The money comes from illegally sold
mortgage promissory notes to provide for the
Eduard and to withdraw the money from Einstein. In
the end, the sons Hans Albert and Eduard share
this sum in 1950 - the remainder of the Nobel
Prize money.
from: Barbara Wolff: What happened to the prize
money? (original German: Was geschah mit dem
Preisgeld? - 2019) - web06]
Around that time, Albert Einstein uttered the much
quoted sentence: "Only a life lived for others is
worth living."
[The
arrogance of Einstein
appearing in Zurich
never again - and
Mileva's estate comes
to Hans Albert to
Berkeley
-- Einstein never
returned to Mileva after
1945 even though he was
retired, even though he
had plenty of time, and
there was every reason
to celebrate World War
II survival (conclusion
[web05])
-- The estate of Mileva
was picked up by the
wife of Einstein's first
son, Hans Albert
Einstein - Frieda
Einstein - in Zurich,
with the help of a power
of attorney from Hans
Albert - if there was a
withdrawn diploma thesis
of Mileva in the estate,
then it would have
landed at Hans Albert
(Wolff: Preisgeld 2019 -
web06)
-- but one can assume
that Mileva's many books
were thrown away because
there was no room for
books jn the airplane,
so one can assume that
even the withdrawn
diploma thesis was
thrown away, maybe some
books also landed in the
Social Archives of
Zurich or in Zurich
University Library
(conclusion [web05])
-- the inheritance
disputes ran because of
debts on the house
Hutten Street 62 up to
1950, and finally, Hans
Albert and Eduard
Einstein shared the
found 87,000 francs,
which were found at
Mileva (Wolff: Preisgeld
2019 - web06)
[Zurich 1948-1965: Einstein's son Eduard 17 years
in forced psychiatry Burghölzli with Bleuler,
electroshocks and toxic pills -
death notice without "Mileva Maric"]
After Mileva Einstein-Maric had died, her son lived
more than 17 years alone in the Burghölzli,
fulfilling her deepest fears. In the announcement of
his death, his mother's name is not mentioned; he is
simply the son of Professor Albert Einstein, a
father who had not lived with him since he was four
years old and who did not take care of him or even
come to see him when he was ill .
Trbuhovic-Gjuric speaks of the immense self-denial
in Mileva Einstein-Maric's life. Although she did
not start out altruistially, she gave up all her
dreams for herself when she met Albert Einstein. Her
love, and his love for her, changed her life. Her
love made her accept all sacrifices as meaningful
because they served her husband's career. But Albert
Einstein enjoyed the fruits of this fame with
another woman. Mileva Einstein-Maric died lonely,
worried by the sorrow about her son. "She died an
impoverished old woman, pushed aside even by the
clinic personnel" (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1938, pp.178,
180).
[Mileva refused any new marriage and
publication of her own knowledge - this was her
helper syndrome].
[The patterns of false male and female behavior -
summary]
We can see so many patterns in this life story:
-- Men who take the beauty, youth, and health of
women and leave when these are gone
[p.428]
-- Men who take the intelligence and energy of women
and make them work: they expect women to do the
household chores and all the other everyday work
that is needed; they expect them to take care of the
children; they expect them to create a home
atmosphere free of worries; they expect to be free
for their work; they expect them to do their work,
type for them, do their correspondence, go to the
library, etc.; they exspect them to give them ideas,
stimulate them, advise them, comfort them, support
them, be their muses, hostesses, companions, nurses,
and therapists.
-- Men who leave their first wife when children
come, leave her to do all the work with small
children on her own.
-- Men who do not care for their children, other
than verbally repeating their commitment.
-- Men who do not even feel financially responsible
for their children and shirk alimony payment. (In
West Germany today [[in 1990]], 50% of men do not
pay alimony for their children; in the United
States, the figure is said to be higher).
-- Men who quickly find new, usually younger
companions for a second marriage; mostly these
companions are well in sight before they leave their
first wife.
-- Women who change their life once they fall in
love and whose life is changed, whether they want it
or not, once they marry and have children.
-- Women who feel responsibility toward their
children and take it as their natural duty to do the
work for society of bringing up the next generation
without getting any recognition or help for it.
-- Women who do NOT quickly find a second, younger,
and energetic husband who will help them bring up
the children.
-- Women who have no leisure time to pursue their
academic, artistic, or other interests once they
have children.
-- Women who have to fight for survival because
their husbands do not support them.
-- Women who, having come from wealthy background or
having taken care of themselves independently, end
up in poverty after divorce [9].
[9]
Cf. the New Jersey Reports on "Women in the
Courts" with the finding that the distribution
of income and property after divorce, no
matter what social class a couple belong to,
is unfair to the women. See also: "Michigan
Bar Journal, 63" (6), June 1984 and Crites,
Laura L., & Hepperle, Winfred L. (Eds.).
(1987). "women, the courts and equality".
Newbury Park: Sage.
-- Women, who started out as promising, got better
grades as students than their husbands, and find
themselves not advancing in their career with the
same speed as their husbands.
-- Women who find it difficult to keep up their
work, who have worse working conditions, usually
working at night, who finally, overburdened, give up
their creative work altogether.
-- Women whose ideas and work is appropriated by
men, their husbands, professors, fellow students,
and published under the men's names.
We know these patterns, but we do not apply them
yet, think by them, write by them, judge by them
when we are dealing with a woman's life. So it comes
as no surprise that the editors of Volume 1 of the
"Collected Papers of Albert Einstein", which covers,
however, only the time before his marriage, cannot
find any evidence that Mileva Einstein-Maric's role
was more than "a sounding board for Einstein's
ideas". I would not be surprised if not even the
next volume, which is to cover the crucial period
before and after 1905, would discover any trace of
Mileva Einstein-Maric's part in their joint work.
"The Collected Papers" are firmly grounded in the
tradition of constructing man's success and
deconstructing woman's contributions. They are
themselves a beautiful example of how it is done.
Bang 17: Mileva's dissertation
"disappeared" - who let it "disappear"? Room
service? ETH? Frieda Einstein in 1948?
[Mileva's letter to Helene Kaufler-Savic: Mileva
completed a dissertation - this dissertation has
"disappeared"]
The most important requirement is to ask few
questions about the woman, and many, but not all,
questions about the man. Following this rule, every
one of the seven letters by Mileva Einstein-Maric to
her friend Helene Kaufler-Savic that are reprinted
have parts deleted, even parts that are needed and
referred to later. For example, one letter (document
64) has three deletions. And editorial footnote
indicates that one deletion concerns Mileva
Einstein-Maric's Diplomarbeit [[dissertation]] which
she wrote that she had completed ("Collected Papers,
Vol.1", 1987, p.245). We have to trust this
statement.
Another editorial footnote (footnote 5 of document
75) to a later letter from Albert Einstein to Mileva
Einstein-Maric refers exactly to the deleted portion
of document 64, this time quoting an incomplete
sentence from it, from which the predicate is
missing: "eine grössere Arbeit-... die ich mir als
Diplom- und wahrscheinlich auch als Doktorarbeit
ausgewählt
[p.429], ..." (a larger work ...
which I chose as my thesis for my diploma, probably
also for my doctorate ...) ("Collected Papers, Vol.
1", 1987, p.260). From this excerpt we cannot deduce
what she is saying about the topic which she has
chosen. Is she that unimportant that only bits and
pieces of her letter are put into a later footnote?
Is what she says about her
Diplomarbeit
[[dissertation]] (which, as we know, has
disappeared) that unimportant? Instead
of presenting document 64 fully, footnote 5 of
document 75, with its fragment of a sentence is
referred to again and again in further editorial
footnotes. Good editorial practice? Certainly not,
but good editorial practice is apparently not
required when it comes to women.
[1948:
The estate of
Mileva after
her death:
Mrs. Frieda
Einstein
The estate of
Mileva after
her death was
taken by Mrs.
Frieda
Einstein to
Berkeley near
San Francisco
where the Hans
Albert
Einstein
family lived
(see: Wolff:
Preisgeld -
2019).
Mileva's
thesis should
be there in
Berkeley, or
the other
Einstein son
Eduard had it
and when he
died in 1965
nobody came.
Or the thesis
was thrown
away in 1948
already
because not
all books
could be taken
by air plane
to Berkeley?]
[1900+1901: Mileva fails twice her diploma
- no reasons indicated]
Following this rule also,
we do not hear
anything in the "Collected Papers,
Vol.1", about
why Mileva Einstein-Maric
failed twice. In the first exam [[in
1900]], which she apparently took with Albert
Einstein, we can see her grades and the statement of
her failure in document 67. In the second case [[in
1901]], we have to take the editor's word in another
footnote for the fact (note 1 to document 121),
therefore we do not know wheter she failed by
default, that is, by withdrawing her Diplomarbeit,
[[dissertation]] as Trbuhovic-Gjuric suggests.
[Dissertation of Mileva is kept secret]
But not only are the leads in Trbuhovic-Gjuric's
book not followed up, there are also no questions
asked about the numerous references to Mileva
Einstein-Maric's doctoral dissertation by Albert
Einstein himself. What happened to this doctoral
dissertation?
Do we know its title? Is it
still in existence? Are parts of it
reconstructible from letters or documents?
Of course, this is not a biography of Mileva
Einstein-Maric, and there must be a limit to asking
questions about her in the "Collected Papers of
Albert Einstein".
But what about Albert Einstein's single authorship
of "Einstein" in 1901 [10]?
[10]
Einstein, Albert. (1901). Folgerungen aus den
Capillaritätserscheinungen. In: Annalen der
Physik, 4, 513-523.
Would not that be a question belonging in the
legitimate sphere of interest, especially since
Albert Einstein refers to this paper again and again
as "
our paper"? Apparently not, but
this is in accordance with the second part of my
rule that you ask many, but by no means all,
questions about the man. The result of these
practices is that the success of the man can remain
untouched and the woman's contribution is played
down.
[Supplement: The false "obedience"
in Emperor Germany against the women
Discrimination of women was also a part
of the system of the Emperors: If
Einstein had protested and said that Mileva should
also be mentioned in the article, he might have
received a reprimand or even a publication ban,
because in Emperor Germany the Emperor always
decides, not Einstein! And so the discrimination
of women goes on and on, because all "high ranks"
always want to maintain "obedience" and do not
want to change the discrimination of women ...]
[For male Einstein biographers Mileva's fate is
not important - and like this it's with all women
at the side of "famous" men]
We can expect that
none of the books by male
authors will give credit to the woman for her
scientific contributions [11],
[11]
Howeber, some men are beginning to ask
quesitons, e.g., Harris Walker, in a letter to
"Physics Today", February 1989, called "Did
Einstein espouse his spouse's ideas?"
they will not even give her credit for giving him
the freedom to work by dooing the housework and
child care for him. Albert Einstein himself did not
give credit to his wife for either of these two
contributions to his success. Nor can we expect many
books by male authors and editors to point out that
Albert Einstein forgot his wife and his children
even when they were much in need of his help because
he had adopted a new family fitting his new life
situation.
"The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein" is an
enormous endeavor, funded by numerous foundations
and by the wealth of private persons. If only
one-hundredth of the resources were expended on
Mileva Einstein-Maric and other women physicists and
mathematicians of our time, we could answer all our
questions.
[Trbuhovic-Gjuric: The book "In the shadow of
Einstein" was done without public support -
showing suppressed facts about Mileva]
Trbuhovic-Gjuric had
no financial support
to do the research for her book. She did it out of
her own retirement income and on her time. Her book,
falling out of the tradition of producing male
success, must be unique among all the books on
Albert Einstein.
It is, to my knowledge, the only book written on his
first wife [[effective 1990]]. It is written by a
woman. It is the only book bringing a woman's
perspective to bear on Albert Einstein's life,
touching upon questions that are not usually asked
and, if they are, quickly brushed aside: questions
about his responsibility toward his wife and his
children, about his gratitude to his wife, about his
financial support for his children and his wife, his
financial arrangement with the house from which she
was turned out just before her death
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, pp.160, 174), and
especially about her scientific contributions.
Trbuhovic-Gjuric does not ask these questions
maliciously, but in the hope that later documents
will turn up and provide answers.
[Future books about the Einsteins and with
letters]
The two books that have been announced by the Zurich
publisher Origo, one, a book of memoirs by a woman
named Julia Niggli, who talks a lot about the
Einsteins, and another one, the letters of Mileva
Einstein-Maric and Albert Einstein between 1897 and
1938, might still appear and answer some
[p.430]
questions. So far "legal impediments" have hindered
their appearance (Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.80).
The
letters are kept inaccessible in the Estate of
Albert Einstein in New York
(Trbuhovic-Gjuric, 1983, p.173) or in the
Einstein
Family Correspondence Trust, Los Angeles.
They might still be published at some point in the
future. After all, Einstein has been dead for 34
years.
[Novi Sad: memory for Albert+Mileva
Einstein]
But far off in Novi Sad in today's Yugoslavia,
people apparently have a different sensibility for
the matter, a different sense of time and possibly
some evidence the men of Princeton do not possess:
on the 100th birthday of Mileva Einstein-Maric they
revealed a plaque on the Maric family residence
which reads:
"In this house Albert Einstein the
creator of the relativity theory and his
scientific collaborator and wife stayed in 1905
and 1907." [p.430]
[WRONG: Einstein and Mileva
were equal - this was said by Einstein
himself, and the theory of relativity was
created by the Academy Olympia, too - all
was copied from other books without citing
sources - just all was stolen - and the
reviews were printing it - gang
criminality!].
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