Strange marriages of Albert Einstein (13 photos). Einstein's love was harder than relativity

Companions of geniuses often become not only their muses, but also witnesses and hostages reverse side their genius. Albert Einstein in Everyday life he had a difficult character, and it was very difficult to get along with him. He was married twice, and both of his wives had to put up with his exactingness, inconstancy, lack of moral principles and a strange attitude towards marriage.

Einstein met his first wife while studying at the Polytechnic. Mileva Marich was 21 years old, and he was 17. Einstein's parents were categorically against this marriage, but he did not listen to anyone. “I have lost my mind, dying, burning with love and desire. The pillow you sleep on is a hundred times happier than my heart! You come to me at night, but, unfortunately, only in a dream,” he wrote to Mileva in 1901. But the period of passionate confessions passed very quickly. Even before the wedding, in 1902, Mileva gave birth to a daughter, and her husband unexpectedly insisted on giving her up for adoption to childless relatives "due to financial difficulties." The fact that Einstein had a daughter, Lieserl, became known only in 1997, when his great-grandchildren sold letters at auction that shed light on some episodes of the scientist's biography.

Mileva Maric and Albert Einstein

And even after that, Mileva, despite the protests of her parents, agreed to marry her chosen one. But she was shocked when the groom suddenly put forward his demands: “If you want marriage, you will have to agree to my conditions, here they are: firstly, you will take care of my clothes and bed; secondly, you will bring me food to my office three times a day; thirdly, you will renounce all personal contact with me, except for those necessary for the observance of decorum in society; fourthly, whenever I ask you about it, you will leave my bedroom and study; fifthly, without a word of protest, you will perform scientific calculations for me; sixth, you will not expect any manifestations of feelings from me. Surprisingly, Mileva accepted these conditions.

Wedding photo with Mileva, 1903

Albert Einstein with his first family

In 1904, their son Hans Albert was born, the only successor to the Einstein family - born in 1910, the son Eduard suffered from schizophrenia and ended his days in a psychiatric hospital. However, neither the fulfillment by the wife of the conditions of this strange marriage "manifesto", nor the birth of children, nor the constant assistance to her husband in his scientific activity did not save this marriage from collapse. In 1919, they divorced, although in fact their family broke up as early as 1914.

Mileva also accepted the terms of the divorce, and they were also specific: in exchange for her voluntary consent to leave, her husband promised to give her the Nobel Prize - and Einstein had no doubt that he would someday receive it, however, like his wife. Mileva was very upset by the divorce, she even had to seek help from psychoanalysts, as she could not cope with prolonged depression on her own. To the credit of the scientist, he kept his word - becoming a Nobel laureate, he gave ex-wife 32 thousand dollars.

3 months after the divorce, the scientist married again - to his cousin Elsa, who shortly before this motherly carefully looked after him during his illness. Einstein agreed to adopt two girls from Elsa's previous marriage, and their home was idyllic in the early years. Charlie Chaplin, who visited them, spoke of the second wife of the scientist: “From this woman with a square figure, she beat life force. She frankly enjoyed the greatness of her husband and did not hide it at all, her enthusiasm even bribed.

Einstein with his second wife Elsa, 1922

Albert Einstein and his second wife Elsa

However, traditional family foundations and values ​​were completely alien to the great scientist. No matter how he tried to create a harmonious union, his nature took over and destroyed the harmony. Later, about one of his friends, Einstein wrote: “Most of all I admired his ability to live long years not only in the world, but also in true harmony with a woman - I tried to solve this problem twice, and both times I failed shamefully.

Great scientist and insufferable husband

Einstein, his second wife Elsa and stepdaughter Margo

Einstein was very loving, and in his many hobbies, he did not know any moral restrictions. Elsa listened to her husband's complaints that women did not let him pass. She had to put up with his constant connections on the side, his first mistress appeared within a few months after the wedding. He even brought his women to his house with Elsa. Nevertheless, this marriage lasted until Elsa's death in 1936.

Great scientist and insufferable husband

Albert Einstein

With his first wife Mileva Marich Einstein met in 1896 in Zurich, where they studied together at the Polytechnic Institute. Albert was 17 years old, Mileva was 21. She was from a Catholic Serbian family living in Hungary. Albert's parents were against their relationship, and when they learned that their son was going to marry, they made a scandal: in Jewish families it was not customary to be related to Christians.

Albert suffered. “... I have lost my mind, I am dying, I am burning with love and desire,” he wrote to his beloved in 1901. “The pillow you sleep on is a hundred times happier than my heart!” You come to me at night, but, unfortunately, only in a dream…”.

They had to forget about the wedding for a while, but the lovers continued to meet and soon began to live together. In January 1902, Mileva gave birth to their first child, a daughter, Lieserl. The appearance of the child puzzled Albert. He was not ready for fatherhood. After graduating from the institute, Einstein received a diploma as a teacher of physics and mathematics, but he was not left to teach at the institute. I had to earn money by private lessons. The lovers barely made ends meet. As a result, Albert decided to give the baby up for adoption to a childless family of Mileva's relatives. She agreed, after which her parents demanded that their daughter immediately leave such a lover. Mileva did not listen: she loved Albert and dreamed of a wedding. But in response to her talk about marriage, Albert unexpectedly set strange conditions:

“First, you will take care of my clothes and bed; secondly, you will bring me food to my office three times a day; thirdly, you will renounce all personal contact with me, except for those necessary for the observance of decorum in society; fourthly, whenever I ask you about it, you will leave my bedroom and study; fifthly, without a word of protest, you will perform scientific calculations for me; sixth, you will not expect any manifestations of feelings from me.

Mileva agreed. In June 1902, Einstein got a job at the Berne Federal Patent Office, and six months later they were married. On May 14, 1904, their son Hans Albert was born, in 1910 - Eduard.

The work of a civil servant gave a lot of free time to conduct their own research. In 1905 he published several scientific works, in which he described his sensational discoveries in the field of physics, in particular, the "photoelectric effect", which gave a theoretical justification for the future invention of television, and the "special theory of relativity".

Einstein defends his dissertation, becomes a doctor of science, he is invited to teach at the universities of Zurich and Prague. All this time, Mileva was Albert's faithful assistant and tried to fulfill all his whims. However, it was difficult to get along with a brilliant husband. For Einstein, physics always came first. He spent months sitting in his office doing calculations. When something did not work out, he played the violin: the music inspired the scientist. At night, his concerts prevented his wife and children from sleeping.

In 1914, on the recommendation of the famous German physicist Max Planck, Einstein was appointed professor at the Prussian Academy in Berlin. Mileva did not go with him. Albert didn't insist.

In 1916, in the midst of the First World War, he creates " general theory relativity." His ideas completely destroyed the generally accepted ideas about the laws of the universe, which were based on the laws of mechanics of Isaac Newton. The concept of relativity proved that space and time are not absolute, as previously thought, but are influenced by the relationship of motion and mass. When his hypothesis was confirmed by astronomers, Einstein became a world celebrity.

However, intensive work and poor nutrition in warring Germany soon made themselves felt: the scientist's health was undermined. Einstein fell seriously ill: a stomach ulcer opened, then jaundice was added. He took care of the sick cousin Elsa Einstein-Loventhal. She was three years older, divorced, had two daughters. Albert and Elsa have been friends since childhood, during the illness of the scientist they became close. After recovering, Albert wrote to Mileva asking for a divorce. The wife refused. Then Einstein gave her an ultimatum:

“I promise you that when I receive the Nobel Prize, I will give you all the money. You have to agree to a divorce, otherwise you won't get anything at all."

Mileva had two small children in her arms. Edgar suffered from dementia since childhood and needed treatment. There was no exit. As soon as Mileva agreed to a divorce, Albert and Elsa got married. Albert adopted her daughters and was on excellent terms with them.

The scientist kept his promise. In 1922, he received the Nobel Prize and gave all 32 thousand dollars (a huge sum at that time) to his ex-wife. Mileva was very upset by the divorce, fell into depression, and was treated by psychoanalysts. She died in 1948 at the age of 73.

In 1933, when Hitler came to power, Einstein turned down a professorship in Berlin and accepted an offer from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. Soon, the directorate of the Institute decided to order a sculptural portrait of their great colleague from the famous Russian sculptor Sergei Konenkov, who then lived in the United States. In the master's house, Albert met his 35-year-old wife Margarita. They became friends, and after several meetings became close. In 1936, when Elsa Einstein died of heart disease, they became lovers.

Margarita worked for the NKVD and was supposed to transmit information about the American nuclear project. Through Einstein, she met Robert Oppenheimer, the "father" of American atomic bomb and other nuclear scientists. Albert knew about her "work" and felt sorry for his mistress, called the USSR "her hardened Motherland." He himself did not take part in the creation of the bomb, and therefore could not tell Margarita anything about this. The same information that "agent Lucas" transmitted to the Kremlin has not been declassified so far.

For three years the lovers met secretly. Einstein was decidedly not satisfied with this state of affairs, and one day he decided on a forgery. Albert wrote a long letter to Sergei Konenkov saying that his wife was seriously ill. Attached to the letter were certificates that Einstein took from his doctor friends. They strongly advised Konenkova to receive medical treatment at the Saranac Lake resort, which was Albert's favorite vacation spot. Worried about the state of his wife, Sergei sent her to be treated. Einstein joined soon after.

The room where the lovers spent time, they called the "nest". Things that were given to each other were considered common and dubbed "Almar", from the first letters of the names: Albert and Margarita. Margarita also washed the scientist's famous hair. After her departure, Einstein did it himself with great difficulty.

Soon, her husband found out about their relationship, and Margarita made a huge scandal. But Konenkova continued to meet with Albert.

In 1945, the Konenkovs received an order from Moscow to return to their homeland. margarita last time went to Einstein and lived with him for two weeks. In parting, Albert dedicated a sonnet to her and presented her with his gold watch. Correspondence former lovers continued for another ten years, until Einstein's death in 1955.

Margarita survived Albert by 25 years. After the death of her husband, she was left completely alone. She didn't go anywhere, she avoided people. Her housekeeper openly mocked the infirm mistress, fed herring with black bread, spoiled things and stole jewelry. In 1980, Margarita died of exhaustion, simply refusing to eat.

It's no secret that Albert Einstein was loved by women. Smart women at all times believed that the sexiest thing in a man is the mind. Mileva Marić, Einstein's first wife, is one of them. They met at the pedagogical faculty of the Zurich Polytechnic and, oddly enough, fell in love with each other. The strange thing is that before Mileva, Einstein was fond of exclusively pretty girls, and it was difficult to call Mileva such. True, her head was beautifully planted, her features pleasantly rounded, even soft, but her strong-willed chin spoiled everything. In addition, congenital lameness.
She was the only woman in her course and the fifth who decided to enter this, in essence, the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics. She understood Einstein, supported him in all his searches and, in the end, became a co-author of the famous theory of relativity, to say the least, its author...
It is known for certain that she did mathematical calculations for Einstein (he did not really like mathematics). There is evidence that his first science articles appeared with the help of Mileva. In any case, Einstein himself once wrote in a letter to Mileva: “If, as a result, WE deduce the law of nature, WE will send the article to …..”. He speaks of "our article" and "our theory of molecular forces". And Mileva's chief apologist, Dr. Evans Harris Walker, even states: "There are reasons to believe that the original idea of ​​the theory of relativity belongs to her."
According to the Russian physicist Abram Fedorovich Ioffe, all three landmark articles of 1905 were signed "Einstein - Marich". He saw the originals with Wilhelm Roentgen, who reviewed them. True, the originals disappeared, Einstein said that he threw them into the wastebasket as unnecessary. Mileva's supporters made headlines in 1990 at the annual convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in New Orleans. However, Mileva herself never liked to discuss this topic and never claimed to be a co-author.
Their path to marriage was long and painful due to the protest of Einstein's parents: firstly, the intended bride was not of their circle, a Serbian, "from the land of robbers and rebels", they were embarrassed by the girl's strong-willed and overly firm character. And the main argument of the parents was that Albert could not find a job for a very long time and, therefore, was not able to provide for his family. As a result, they lived either together or apart, in the so-called civil marriage, which at that time was not accepted ....
In 1902 came into being illegitimate daughter Einstein and Marich, Lieserl. At this time, Mileva lived with her parents in Vojvodina. O future fate there were a lot of rumors about this girl, and there are still different versions, but it is not known for certain whether she died in infancy or was given up for education.
However, in 1903, Einstein and Marich finally got married, in 1904 their son Hans-Albert was born. In 1910, the second son, Eduard, was born. Einstein and Marich broke up four years later. Einstein obtained a divorce, promising Mileva, in exchange for his freedom and the opportunity to enter into a new marriage, the money received from the Nobel Prize.
Maric and both of her sons lived in very cramped circumstances. After Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize, she received the money he promised and bought an apartment. But most of of this amount went to the treatment of his son Edward, who was ill with schizophrenia, so it was necessary to earn a living by private lessons. Mileva selflessly cared for Eduard until her death, until in 1948 she died all alone in one of the Zurich hospitals.
And it is unlikely that we will ever know what this woman actually experienced - how much of her talent she invested in the genius of her beloved, whether she forgave him the tragedy of their children, and what was her price for the great discovery that everything in this world is relative.

Natalia GRIGORYEVA

Hans Albert Einstein is the second son of one of the greatest physicists of the first half of the twentieth century - Albert Einstein, who radically changed the ideas of science about the Universe.

Father

Albert Einstein was born on 03/15/1879 into a Jewish family living at that time in the small German town of Ulm. He was owned by a firm that stuffed pillows and mattresses with feathers. Albert's mother was the daughter of a well-known maize merchant in the town.

In 1880 the Einstein family moved to Munich. Here, Albert's father, together with his brother Jacob, opened a small business selling electrical equipment. In Munich, Albert's sister Maria was born. In the same city, the boy first went to school. It was attended by children of Catholics. According to the memoirs of the scientist, already at the age of 13 he moved away from religious beliefs and joined science. Everything that was said in the Bible ceased to seem plausible to him. He began to take shape as a person who was skeptical of everything, including authorities.

The most vivid childhood impressions that Albert had for the rest of his life were the compass and Euclid's work "Beginnings".

Mother insisted that the future Nobel laureate study music. Albert began to play the violin and became interested in it. The craving for music remained with him for life. Already in his mature years, while in the United States, the scientist even gave a concert to emigrants who came from Germany. He played a Mozart composition on the violin.

In 1894 the Einstein family moved to the small town of Pavia near Milan. It also moved its own production from Munich.

In 1895, the future scientist arrived in Switzerland. In this country, he wanted to go to college to become a teacher of physics. However, Albert failed his botany tests. Then young genius went to school in the town of Arau. Here he became interested in studying the electromagnetic theory of Maxwell.

The next place of study for the future Nobel laureate was the Zurich Polytechnic. Here he met the mathematician Grossman. Here he met his future wife - Mileva Marich.

Albert Einstein received a diploma from the Polytechnic in 1900, but he could not find a permanent job in his specialty. In order to survive and feed the family, the future Nobel laureate had to become an employee of the patent agency. In his spare time, he never ceased to engage in scientific problems.

In 1903 Albert's father died. In the same year, he legalized his relationship with Mileva Marich.

The coming to power of Hitler forced Albert to leave Germany. He moved to America, where he became a professor. He died in 1955. The cause of his death was an aortic aneurysm.

Mother

Mileva Marić is the first wife of Albert Einstein. She was a Serbian by nationality, born in Hungary. This is the only girl who studied at the Zurich Polytechnic School.

Mileva Marić was three and a half years older than Albert Einstein. However, this did not stop their love. Soon after they met, the young began to live in a civil marriage. For the people around them, such an alliance seemed somewhat strange. After all, the young Einstein was distinguished by amazing charm, attractiveness and ease of communication. In contrast, Mileva was ugly. Her short figure was spoiled by her stoop and lameness, which arose after suffering bone tuberculosis. But at the same time, Mileva was a very talented mathematician, possessed a deep intellect. And the absence in her character of excessive respect for various authorities finally brought her closer to Albert.

In addition, the young people both loved music and good food. It is also important that Mileva was a great hostess. It is quite possible that Einstein subconsciously strove for a woman who could relieve him of the burden of everyday problems. Indeed, according to the recollections of friends, as a student, Albert was unable to concentrate on everyday worries. Mileva, unlike him, was a practical person, which reminded Einstein of his mother.

The wedding of Hans' parents

Einstein did not hide his civil marriage. His parents also knew about him. But they did not give their son permission to marry. Albert's mother considered Mileva repulsive and ugly, and his father wanted to see a girl of only Jewish nationality as his daughter-in-law.

Everything changed after Hermann Einstein became terminally ill. Saying goodbye to his son, he nevertheless blessed his marriage. And on January 6, 1903, the young became husband and wife, legalizing their relationship in Bern.

First child

Hans Albert Einstein never saw his sister. She was born in 1902, when her parents were in a civil marriage. An illegitimate child could spoil scientific career young genius. And so, being pregnant, Mileva went to her parents. Here, in Hungary, she gave birth to a daughter Lieserl. In order for no one to know about the illegitimate baby, the girl was immediately given up for foster parents.

Mileva pledged never to look for her daughter and not to meet her. According to some reports, the girl did not live long. While still an infant, she fell ill with transient scarlet fever and died. Einstein never saw his daughter and never told anyone about her.

son of a genius

05/14/1904 born Hans the boy began in Bern. Through the streets of this city raced him happy father who, having learned about the birth of his son, ran as fast as he could to kiss his wife and baby.

Einstein's first son was very loved by his parents. According to the recollections of the friends of the great scientist, they often saw Albert, who in one hand held sheets of work written up and down, and the other rocked a baby stroller with a sleeping baby.

The fate of the second son

In 1910, another boy, Eduard, was born in the Einstein family. He had excellent musical abilities. However, the second son of the scientist was very painful, and at the age of 20, after undergoing nervous breakdown He was diagnosed with schizophrenia. At one time, Eduard Einstein was under the care of his mother. But a little later, Mileva placed her son in a psychiatric hospital.

Albert Einstein, who by this time had already divorced his wife, was not at all surprised by the illness of his son, who was affectionately called "Tetel" or "Tete". The fact is that Mileva's sister suffered from schizophrenia. Eduard Einstein also often behaved in a way that clearly indicated the presence of the disease in him. However, the eldest son of the great scientist had a somewhat different opinion. Hans Albert Einstein believed that the final destruction of his brother's psyche was due to the treatment using electric shock, which was popular at that time.

Albert Einstein came to live in the US a year after his Aunt was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. And since then communication with sons was limited only by letters. Eduard's father sent rare, but very sincere messages. In one of them, for example, the scientist compared people with the sea, saying that they can be both friendly and welcoming, as well as complex and stormy.

After the death of his mother in 1948, Eduard Einstein was in a village near Zurich, where he was taken care of by Dr. Heinrich Meili. Tete lived with a local pastor and gradually began to make contacts with people. Eduard even started earning money by writing addresses on envelopes on the instructions of one of the local companies.

However, after some time, the guardian moved his ward to the widow of a lawyer who lived on the outskirts of Zurich. This worsened Edward's mental state. In 1954, the great scientist refused all contacts with younger son. He explained his act by the certainty that the correspondence was painful for both.

In 1965 Eduard died. According to one of the researchers, he was killed by love for his neighbor, which turned out to be an unbearable burden for him.

Divorce of parents

Since 1912, relations between Albert and Mileva have become more than tense. The reason for this was the scientist's passion for his cousin Elsa Leventhal. In 1914, Marich left for Zurich with her children, having received from her husband an obligation certified by a notary on the annual maintenance of the family in the amount of 5600 Reichsmarks. The couple filed an official divorce on February 14, 1919.

An agreement was reached between Einstein and Marić. It provided for the transfer to the ex-wife of the monetary part of the Nobel Prize expected by scientists. The financial resources that Albert Einstein would have received were to be taken into trust by the children. Marić was left to receive interest.

Life after parents' divorce

In June 1919 the scientist arrived in Zurich, where he spent time with his children. The son of Albert Einstein, Hans, went with his father on a sailing trip on Lake Constance, and with Edward, the great naturalist visited Arosa, where the boy was treated at a sanatorium.

Mileva and her sons lived in extremely cramped circumstances. However, in 1922, after receiving former spouse Nobel Prize, she bought three houses in Zurich. Marich moved to one of them to live with her sons, and the other two served as long-term investments. However, everything changed after Edward was given a terrible diagnosis. Mileva had to sell two houses. All funds went to pay for the treatment of his son at the University Hospital of Zurich. In order not to lose the main house, the woman transferred the rights to his possession ex-husband, who fulfilled its obligations to transfer funds for the maintenance of the former family.

Career of the eldest son of the great scientist

Hans Albert Einstein decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents. To do this, he received a diploma from the Swiss Federal Institute technologies, located in Zurich, where he graduated in 1926. Then for four years he worked as a designer on a bridge project under construction in Dortmund. Already in 1936, Hans Albert defended his doctoral dissertation, receiving an academic degree for it.

Emigration

After Albert Einstein fled Germany to escape the anti-Semitic threat, he advised his eldest son to do the same. In 1938, Hans Albert Einstein left Switzerland and moved to South Carolina, to the city of Greenville. Here he worked as a hydraulic engineer in the Department Agriculture USA. The scope of his duties included the study of sediments. Work in the Department lasted from 1938 to 1943.

Since 1947, Hans Albert Einstein has been an associate professor at the University of California in hydraulics at Berkeley. But his career didn't end there. A little later he became an honorary professor at the same university.

Being a highly qualified specialist in his field, Hans Albert traveled a lot around the world. He constantly took part in hydrotechnical conferences of various levels even after 1971, when he had already retired. At one of these symposiums in Woodshole (Massachusetts) Hans Albert Einstein was in 1973, where on July 26 he died of a heart attack.

Awards

For his work in the field of hydraulics and the study of bottom sediments, Hans Albert was awarded:

Guggenheim Fellowships (in 1953);

Scientific awards of the American Society of Civil Engineers (in 1959 and in 1960);

Certificate of Appreciation from the US Department of Agriculture (in 1971);

Award from the University of California (in 1971);

Certificate of Recognition for more than 20 years of excellent and dedicated service from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (in 1972).

Personal life

After the divorce of his parents, Hans Albert's relationship with his father became more than strained. The son accused the great scientist of putting Mileva in an extremely difficult financial situation, giving her the use of only a percentage of the Nobel Prize received.

Disagreements between son and father became even deeper after the great scientist spoke out against the marriage of Hans to Fred Knecht. The girl was three years older than the guy. In addition, according to Einstein Sr., there was nothing attractive about her. The scientist cursed such an alliance, accusing Frida of deceit and persecution of his son. After unsuccessful attempts to quarrel the young, Albert Einstein began to beg them not to have children, so as not to complicate, in his opinion, the inevitable divorce.

Reconciliation between father and son did not come even during their life in the United States. They were always apart. After the death of the great scientist, his son practically did not inherit anything.

Despite a quarrel with his father, Hans Albert Einstein nevertheless married Frieda Knecht in 1927. His personal life was successful. With this woman he was together until her death in 1958. Having become a widower, he married again. His wife was Elizabeth Roboz.

Hans and Frida had three children of their own. However, only one of them survived middle age. Bernhard Caesar Einstein (10/07/1930 - 30/09/2008) was an engineer-physicist. The couple also had an adopted daughter, Evelyn. She passed away in 2011 in extreme poverty.

Hans Albert was an avid sailor. Often with colleagues and his family, he went on excursions to San Francisco. The son of the great scientist was fond of photography. He also read his scientific lectures using a slide show created by himself. Just like his father, Hans loved music and knew how to play the flute and the piano. This is mentioned on his tombstone.

During the life of Albert Einstein, those who did not know him personally believed that the physicist was only passionate about science and led a fine lifestyle.

However, the author of the famous theory of relativity believed that marriage is contrary to human nature. The concept of "loyalty" did not exist for him at all. He slept with his wife's daughter, seduced the spouses of his colleagues, not recognizing any moral standards.

Mileva Maric failed in height. Yes, and the face did not come out. Plus, she was limping. What did he see in her? Einstein's friends were perplexed. And they are quite understandable: after all, 24-year-old Albert was just a handsome man. And he never looked for women! His next love was the one that was nearby. In the polytechnic school where the genius studied, except for Mileva, there were no girls. So he took as his wife the one that turned up under his arm. In addition, this Serbian was well versed in mathematics.

He lived with Mileva for several years before the official marriage, but the poor thing already had to share it with other women. One of them is Marie Winteler, the daughter of a teacher of ancient Greek and history at the cantonal school of Aarau, where Albert studied in 1895. Starting to live with Mileva, Einstein continued to give his things to Marie's laundry - out of habit. The physicist wrote passionate poems to each of his ladies of the heart. So he did until old age - he began the conquest of women's hearts with a lyrical dedication.

Marich gave birth to a scientist's daughter and two sons - Eduard and Hans Albert. Einstein was a good father to them, but this did not stop him from divorcing her after 16 years of marriage. Mileva filed for divorce - unable to withstand the constant betrayals of her husband. He did not miss a single woman who happened to be nearby.

The outstanding physicist loved to embarrass the servants by not wrapping his dressing gown when leaving the bath. He sunbathed in the courtyard of his own house without panties, covering only his shoulders. And when he saw a lady passing by, he jumped up and, not at all embarrassed by nudity, began to greet.

Well, how was Mileva to endure such a rake? In addition, he also beat her.

Einstein's second wife is his cousin Elsa Lowenthal. She was three years older than Albert and had two daughters from her first marriage - the elder Ilza and the younger Margo. But first, the physicist planned to marry not his cousin Elsa, but her eldest daughter Ilze. He had an irresistible sexual attraction to her.

A letter from Ilza to a friend has been preserved, where she tells how once Albert, already being a stepfather, confessed his love to her, asked her to marry him and promised to break off his relationship with her mother. But Ilsa refused.

At first, Elsa tried to keep her husband from cheating. She even hid money from him so that he could not take his mistresses to restaurants. But the ladies themselves paid for it! Einstein's theory of relativity caused a worldwide sensation. Fame added to his attraction. All women at the sight of Einstein had an inexplicable passion for science, and each of them asked him to present his theory to her personally.

Realizing that nothing could be done, Elsa resigned herself. He brought his mistresses home for the night, and she went to bed alone without scandals. But more than that - in the morning she also served him coffee. She left him in country house in Caputa, ostensibly leaving for shopping, so that he could enjoy his freedom. The scientist arranged one of his mistresses as a secretary at the University of Berlin. Elsa gave her husband an ultimatum: if he cannot do without this passion, then she will allow him to satisfy the "dog instinct" twice a week. But in return she demanded: let the mistress be the only one. But where is it!

It was rumored that Albert slept not only in the bed of Elsa and Ilsa, but also of Margo, his wife's youngest daughter. After death older sister and mother, and the latter died in 1936, she divorced her husband and lived under the same roof with Einstein. She accompanied him on foreign tours and attended dinner parties. Although it is known that at the same time, Albert often satisfied his sexual desire by visiting prostitutes.

“Recently I had a dream that Margo got married,” Einstein wrote to Elsa. - I love her as much as if she were mine. own daughter maybe even stronger."

In 1935, the administration of Princeton University, where Einstein worked, commissioned a relief portrait of him from the Soviet sculptor Sergei Konenkov. At that time he lived in New York with his wife Margarita. By the way, Elsa was still alive. The affair with Margarita lasted ten years, until 1945, when Einstein was 66 years old, and Konenkova was 51. Albert had no idea that his beloved was performing a special task. In Moscow, they were satisfied with her work.

There is a version that through Einstein it was possible to influence Robert Oppenheimer and other "secret" physicists. And yet between Margarita and Albert burned real passion. It faded away only after Konenkova returned to the USSR.

BUT last love Einstein was Joanna Fantova. Until the age of 76, until his death, he maintained a close relationship with her.

Genius - about ladies

“Compared to these women, any of us is a king, because we stand on our own two feet, not expecting something from the outside, and these women are always waiting for someone to come to satisfy all their needs,” Einstein said.

According to physicist biographer Janos Plesch, “Einstein loved women, and the dirtier, the more primitive they were, the more they smelled of sweat, the more he liked them. Pleshch recalled how once a genius, already at an age, was extremely excited when he saw a young girl kneading dough.

What is the secret of his attractiveness?

Women are always interested in esoteric and astral teachings. And they perceived the theory of relativity as a natural continuation of the supernatural doctrine. Einstein was taken for a prophet and magician.

Reference

Albert Einstein was born on March 14, 1879.