Eduard Einstein
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| Eduard Einstein | |
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| Born | Eduard Einstein July 28, 1910 Zurich |
| Died | October 25, 1965 (aged 55) Psychiatric Clinic Burghölzli, Zurich |
| Cause of death | stroke |
| Resting place | Cemetery Hönggerberg, Zurich |
| Residence |  Switzerland (1910-1965) |
| Nationality | Switzerland |
| Other names | "Tete" |
| Religious beliefs | Serbian Orthodox |
| Parents | Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić |
| Relatives | Hans Albert Einstein, Lieserl |
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"Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up." Albert Einstein in a letter to his son Eduard, June 1918
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Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) was born in Zurich, Switzerland the second son of physicist Albert Einstein and his first wife Mileva Marić. Einstein and his family moved to Berlin in 1914, but shortly thereafter Marić returned to Zurich, taking Eduard and his brother with her.
Eduard was a good student and had musical talent. He started to study medicine to become a psychiatrist, but by the age of twenty he was afflicted with schizophrenia and institutionalized two years later for the first of several times. After his illness struck, Eduard had a minimal relationship with his father.[1]
His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at the psychiatric clinic Burghölzli in Zurich, where he died of a stroke at age 55. He is buried at Hönggerberg-Cemetery in Zurich.[2] His family lineage has been used to raise public awareness of schizophrenia.
[edit] References
- ^ Clark, Ronald W. (1971). Einstein: The Life and Times. Avon. ISBN 0-380-44123-3.
- ^ Robert Dünki, Anna Pia Maissen: «…damit das traurige Dasein unseres Sohnes etwas besser gesichert wird» Mileva und Albert Einsteins Sorgen um ihren Sohn Eduard (1910–1965). Die Familie Einstein und das Stadtarchiv Zürich. In: Stadtarchiv Zürich. Jahresbericht 2007/2008. (german)
[edit] Further reading
- Eduard Rübel (1986). Eduard Einstein: Erinnerungen ehemaliger Klassenkameraden am Zürcher Gymnasium. P. Haupt. ISBN 3-258-03555-5. (German)
[edit] External links
- Short life history of Eduard Einstein - Albert Einstein web site
- Famous People and Schizophrenia - Schizophrenia.com.
- Robert Dünki, Anna Pia Maissen: «…damit das traurige Dasein unseres Sohnes etwas besser gesichert wird» Mileva und Albert Einsteins Sorgen um ihren Sohn Eduard (1910–1965). Die Familie Einstein und das Stadtarchiv Zürich. In: Stadtarchiv Zürich. Jahresbericht 2007/2008. (German)
- Thomas Huonker: Diagnose: «moralisch defekt» Kastration, Sterilisation und «Rassenhygiene» im Dienst der Schweizer Sozialpolitik und Psychiatrie 1890-1970. «Er versank immer mehr in Apathie und Untätigkeit» Prominente als Patienten, Zürich 2003, p. 204ff. (German)
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