My family

Einsteins wife Mileva with her sons Eduard and Hans Albert

In the spring of 1896, the Serbian Mileva Marić (an acquaintance of Nikola Tesla) started initially as a medical student at the University of Zurich, but after a term switched to the same section as me, and as the only woman that year, to study for the same diploma. Our relationship had developed into romance over the next few years.

In 1900, I was granted a teaching diploma by the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule and was accepted as a Swiss citizen in 1901. During this time I discussed my scientific interests with a group of close friends, including Mileva. Me and Mileva had a daughter Lieserl. Lieserl, at the time, was considered illegitimate because the Mileva and me were unwed.


"Lieserl" was born in January, 1902, a year before Mileva and I married, in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, present day Republic od Serbia and, was cared for by her mother for a short time while I worked in Switserland before Mileva joined me there without the child. All biographers know about Lieserl is that she either died that same year or she got put up for adoption. They found this out by reading the letters that Mileva and me wrote to each other.

We named our second child or first son Hans Albert Einsten. He was born on May 14th, 1904 in Bern, Switserland where I worked as a Clerk in a patent office. He died on July 26th, 1973.

Our third child (second son) was named Eduard Einstein and was born on July 28, 1910 in Zurich.