| Eduard Einstein | |
|---|---|
| Resting place | Cemetery Hönggerberg, Zurich |
| Residence | Switzerland (1910-1965) |
| Nationality | Switzerland |
| Other names | "Tete" |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
| Relatives | Hans Albert Einstein, Lieserl |
| Notes "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 | |
Eduard Einstein was born 28 July 1910 in Zürich, Zürich District, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland to Albert Einstein (1879-1955) and Mileva Marić (1875-1948) and died 25 October 1965 Psychiatric Clinic Burghölzli, Zürich, Zürich District, Canton of Zürich, Switzerland of stroke.
Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) was born in Zürich, 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 Zürich, 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. Many people believe he was overdosed with drugs and harmed by the many "cures" that were used at the time.[1] According to his brother Hans Albert Einstein, the thing that ruined him were the electric shock treatments.[2]
After his illness struck, Eduard told his father that he hated him. Einstein never saw his son again for the rest of his life.[3]
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 Zürich, where he died of a stroke at age 55. He is buried at Hönggerberg-Cemetery in Zurich.[4] His family lineage has been used to raise public awareness of schizophrenia.
References
- ^ Clark, Ronald W. (1971). Einstein: The Life and Times. Avon. ISBN 0-380-44123-3.
- ^ Barry Parker 2003: Einstein : the passions of a scientist. Prometheus Books. New York. Page 236.
- ^ Barry Parker 2003: Einstein : the passions of a scientist. Prometheus Books. New York. Pages 236-237.
- ^ 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)
Further reading
- Eduard Rübel (1986). Eduard Einstein: Erinnerungen ehemaliger Klassenkameraden am Zürcher Gymnasium. P. Haupt. ISBN 3-258-03555-5. (German)
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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