Einstein family#Maria .27Maja.27 Einstein
Maja Einstein ( born Maria Einstein married, Maja Winteler Einstein, born November 18, 1881 in Munich, † 25 July 1951 in Princeton, New Jersey) was a German and Romance languages the younger sister of the physicist Albert Einstein, whose confidante she since the childhood was.
Life
Maja Einstein grew up in a Jewish- emancipated parents house in Munich. Her parents were Hermann and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch. Maja Einstein attended elementary school in Munich. Due to mismanagement, the family was in financial distress and moved to Italy. In Milan she studied from 1887 to 1894, the German -language International School. In 1899 she moved to Aarau, where her brother Albert attended the district school, and had found in the family of the Canton School Professor Jost Winteler connection. There she met his youngest son Paul Winteler know, her future husband. In Aarau, it was 1899-1902 student of teaching seminary. After the death of her father, she acquired the teachers patent in 1905. She studied Romance languages in Berlin, Bern and Paris, and in 1909 received his doctorate at the University of Bern with the dissertation statement of handwriting Chevalier au Cygne and the ratio of the Enfances Godefroy. On March 23, 1910, she married Paul Winteler and lost her work permit because of the teachers celibacy.
The couple moved to Lucerne Bramberg and after the death of Maja Einstein's mother in 1920 they conducted their exit plans to Italy. You purchased outside of Florence the estate " Samos " in colonnata ( Sesto Fiorentino). Maja Einstein hosted many guests, including relatives and friends, among them the painter Hans Joachim Staude. Your hospitality, motherhood and helpfulness earned her the nickname "Sunshine " a. Financial problems could not handle the childless couple by frugal self-sufficiency. Poverty due to unemployment belonged to the ideology of Winteler - Einstein. Critical civilization and nature-loving authenticity was reflected in their monastic life attitude and love of animals.
In February 1939 Maja Einstein emigrated to the United States and moved in with her brother Albert to Princeton. Your husband was prohibited for health reasons, the entry to the U.S., he remained with relatives in Geneva. Maja Einstein proposed a homecoming after the end of World War II. In 1946 she suffered a stroke; also she fell ill from arteriosclerosis and became bedridden, which prevented a return to Europe. The couple talked to death Maja Einstein's Contact. She died on 25 June 1951 of pneumonia due to an arm fracture in Princeton. Her husband Paul Winteler died on 15 July 1952 in Geneva.
Albert Einstein reported after the death of his sister: "In recent years I have read to her every night from the finest books of the old and new literature."