EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921...

EINSTEIN ALBERT: (1879-1955) German-born Theoretical Physicist, Nobel Prize winner for Physics, 1921. A fine A.L.S., `Papa´, one page, 4to, 22nd December 1929, to his son Eduard, in German. Einstein sends a warm letter to his son, stating `Dear Tetel! I hear that you feel sick. Anyway, come to me and we will talk about this. We will find the right solution. It might be that the manifoldness of the medicinal diet isn't as [good] for your stomach as it is for mine. Anyhow, do not take this so seriously, as one can easily do so as long as he is young. Answer to me promptly and receive the warm hug of your Papa´ Beneath the signature Einstein adds a post-scriptum stating `I write short because I hope to see you soon. Greetings to Mom.´ VG

 

Eduard Einstein (1910-1965) Known as "Tete" ("little one"), was Albert Einstein´s third and last child and his second son. Eduard was a good student and started to study medicine to become a psychiatrist, as a Sigmund Freud enthusiast he was, but by the age of twenty he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was institutionalized two years later for the first of several times. Biographers have speculated that the drugs and "cures" of the time, including electroconvulsive therapy damaged rather than aided the young Einstein. Albert Einstein emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1933 after the rise of the Nazi German government and never saw his son again. Eduard died

Eduard lived most of his last twenty years life at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died.