Albert Einstein

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.4.1: German-language Writing and Culture: Germany, 500-present.
Vol. editors: Gerhard P. Knapp (University of Utah), Jennifer Marston William (Purdue University), Herbert Rowland (Purdue University), Jill E. Twark (East Carolina University)

Dates

Born 14 Mar 1879
Died 18 Apr 1955
Activity 1900-1955

Places

Born in Germany
Active in Switzerland; United States

Activities

Primary

Physicist

Resources

Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany, and raised mainly in Munich by modernising reformed Jewish parents. Germany was a burgeoning military power with expansionist and imperial aspirations. Its chemical and electrical industries, and its technical education, were already setting the standard for the rest of the world. Einstein’s father was an electrical engineer whose businesses made dynamos and generators, but they often failed in financial terms. His mother was the daughter of a provision merchant. Einstein was a shy child interested in music and literature and especially mathematics. He showed an early dislike for the militarism and regulation which was everywhere apparent in German society and formally renounced his German …

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Albert Einstein". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 October 2000 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1404, accessed 23 November 2024.]

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