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marriage weight. But before we actually get into the story, we want to shout out our patrons. Yes, we do. The people are new patrons. Thank you guys so much. What the heck? Hope you enjoy this one. I'm really excited. I love the. I do more off the beaten path. Episodes. I mean he's wicked famous but nobody knows him as a lover. Exactly. Like I'm so sick of Albert. Einstein the scientist. Okay. Boring. Yeah, honestly we're not going to cover much of that in this
episode like the science. Yeah, people know who he is beer. He's like I can't physically. I hate physics so much. That was my worst class in all of school that have ever taken. I got a see, um, physics. Hey, I didn't mind actually, I got the terrible hated chemistry. I hated my physics of sure. Yeah, that can make or break an experience.
This episode is definitely probably not for like the Albert Einstein stands, who like love his work specifically and like like your I sound like an idiot like talking about this like this is for the people who like casually you know are interested in what he was like. Yeah, as a lover. Well you think that someone that sign Stein fan wouldn't be interested in? His personal life. I think they probably would actually. Well know, I did see some things online.
It's like should we really be saving these love letters that he had like you know, like it's not anywhere? Yeah, yeah and it's like like oh this is tabloid gossip. Because a lot of these letters actually didn't even come to light to until like the 80s. And so people didn't really, like know a lot of this stuff before then they're like, this is really his personal. That's cool ssion. Yeah. Yes. Family like auction, some of them off and stuff. I love reading letters. It's so intimate.
It's like, I totally see him in a different light and wow, it's really interesting. Yeah, can we get into it? Yeah. What three words would you use to describe their relationship? Oh, I would say. I don't even think about it. Mmm intellectual. Hmm, obviously, romantic. Whoo. And Heartbreaking. I would say, okay, wow. Here we go, right? So mr. Albert, Einstein himself, he was born, March 14, 1879 in Ulm in the Kingdom of württemberg in Germany. He's a Pisces. Wow.
So I first German episode, right? It is yeah, but much of it actually takes place in Switzerland. I see our first whist episode. Yeah, I think so. I think we do have some like German and swiss listeners from yeah. Right at railay. I don't know if they're still here, but if you are thinking, yeah, his dad was Herman. Einstein he was a Salesman and an engineer. His mom was Pauline Scotch. She came from an affluent family, but like, I think she was just a homemaker.
I'm not really sure like what she did. And he had one sister named Maria, but she went by Masha, and she was born when Albert was too and I read that out. It really had trouble making friends when he was a kid. And really his sister was kind of like his only friend as a child and his family. They were secular Ashkenazi Ashkenazi Jews. We're talking with them. Yeah, at one years old, his family moved to Munich and his
dad and uncle. Founded a company that manufactured electrical equipment based on direct current. And he actually in these very early years of his life, had a really significant speech delay and couldn't talk really mmm. And his parents were really concerned about him and they took him to like all these doctors. And eventually he began talking. But even when he did speak he would repeat sentences to
himself alone. Kind of like that kid in that show The Middle. Oh, I feel like it's like now speculated like maybe he might have been like, on the Spectrum really but no, one can say, for sure. Yeah, I'm really knows but because of that he did have trouble making friends which was really tough for him. He was obviously really into science when he was Kid. He taught himself science and math.
He taught himself algebra and geometry in a single Sun I just 12 years old and like then when he was 12 he began teaching himself calculus as well. Oh my goodness I never learn it all he also loved music. He played the violin which is mom taught him how to play and he has said that if he did not become a scientist, he would have become a musician instead. Ed cool beautiful. Yeah, that softer side to him. Oh kids also a pick on him a lot to.
He went to Catholic school and obviously he was Jewish. Yeah. That like really like isolated him from his peers. Sadly. Hmm. Did he move around a lot? He moved around someone a lot but that he did move around some. Come up at age 13, he became
obsessed with philosophy. He studied kant's critique of pure reason and then yeah, and his family moved to Italy after his father and Uncle sold their company because they lost a lot of money because things also like a bid to supply the city of Munich with electrical lighting and so his family. Was moved to Milan. And so he started school there and then they moved to Pavia Italy. But he stayed at school and he was really miserable there.
I guess he had like a real tough time with the teachers. Like he was really defiant. He didn't like how they were teaching and he was like the kind of kid who would like speak back to them and stuff. And so then he wrote to his parents like begging for them to take him out of school and they did WOW, followed them. Them. And then in his late, teens, he went off to. I don't know how to say this arou Switzerland. She's Lipa, I'm not sure for a secondary school and then he
stayed with April there. When he went to that school, he stayed with the professor named Josh. Whittler who had an 18 year old daughter. He was actually 16 at the time, Albert and he fell deeply in love with this girl, her name was Maria. And yeah, they were like really into each other, but he broke it off later and I feel like he kind of looked down on her. He didn't think that he was as smart as her.
Mmm, that's like kind of a theme throughout his life, like, judging people on their intelligence and he later said, in a letter. She was a foolish darling. That can neither do nor understand, anything. Oh my God, that's so harsh, but he found it really pretty And then at age 17, he received his diploma and Switzerland and then he enrolled in a math and physics teaching program at Zurich, Polytechnic, wow, smart, he's wicked smart and that we have my gosh. How do you say it again?
One more time. Mileva, Maric. That's the last time I love the love of my lover. I love talking about is how do you spell it? M, IL e vxa 11 lover. Kind of like my name, is it? Yeah, my love. I was born, December 19th 1875. She's a Sagittarius in title in Austria, Hungary, which is now modern-day Serbia. Serbia Syria have a connection, not gonna get into it though. She came from a pretty wealthy
family. Her parents were Milo's, Milo's and Mariah and she was the oldest child of three children. She had a younger sister. I think, and a younger brother. And she was born with a displaced hip, which caused her to have a limp when she walked. She really stood out because of that, because her family was really rich. She was really well-educated, which was not the norm for girls at that time. And that made her. I mean, she's just naturally really smart too.
And she attended a girls school in Serbia, and her classmates described her as really brilliant, but not very talkative, she would keep to herself. She was really A observant. She just kind of like a Wallflower. Hmm. But very, very smart. Hmm. And so her dad received special permission from the minister of Education to allow her to attend physics, lectures that were
reserved for boys. And then from there, she went off to Switzerland to study math and science, and she received her diploma in 1896, and then also transferred to the same, Is Albert Zurich Polytechnic and they were in the same class with each other for the first year and it was just five of them in the program. All right, I will have to stop the episode right there. Thank you so much for listening
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