Eduard Einstein

Eduard Einstein ( born July 28, 1910 in Zurich, † October 25, 1965 ibid ) was the second son of Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Marić.

The father of ' Tete ' called Eduard Einstein was a sensitive, poetically and musically gifted child. Like his brother, Hans Albert Edward also suffered from the separation of his parents, after the brothers grew up with her mother in Switzerland. Edward was a good and popular student. In the first five years after separation in June 1914, he had no contact with the father, and later the ratio was to his father (as well as his brother ) is problematic, the relationship with the mother all his life closely.

The traditional poetry Eduard Einstein, which has already been partially published in his lifetime in school newspapers, as his father's shows often satirical trains. But Eduard Einstein's poetic mentality studies of teachers and fellow students have not only a socially critical dimension, showing the fragility of bourgeois idyll in German-speaking Switzerland, but also speak of an existential horror at the high level of insensitivity and absurdity that exists in the world and, inter alia, expressed in modern civic life. Some character studies Eduard Einstein refer to the same teachers who in his fictional biography ( The save-the tongue, 1977) portrayed his classmates at the Zurich Cantonal School, later Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti. One of the main addressees of Eduard Einstein's aphorisms, which, inter alia, to refer to Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche, was his father who gave him feedback on his lyrics, but he dissuaded from a literary career.

In 1930, Edward became ill with schizophrenia and was temporarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Zurich Burgholzli. The illness of his son for Albert Einstein mainly genetically determined and justified in the family of Edward's mother. After a recent visit to the clinic in 1933, he broke contact with his son from. The subsequent years until his death in 1965 spent Eduard Einstein - with interruptions - in Burgholzli. During the time of Eduard Einstein's mental illness him stood the Albert Einstein biographer Carl Seelig, among other things, to also to Robert Walser care, with the consent of the father as a mentor.