Albert Einstein in Switzerland: How the Swiss still honour a genius of physics

Albert Einstein in Switzerland

Introduction

Biography

Aarau

Zürich 1

Mettmenstetten

Winterthur

Schaffhausen

Bern

Zürich 2

Last Word

Bibliography

Internet

Copyright

Introduction

This ebook is an abbreviated version of the German book about Albert Einstein – Albert Einstein in der Schweiz. Through many photographs, it covers Einstein’s life in Switzerland, showing the many houses and apartments in which he lived and places where he worked and studied. There is information about his family – his wife and son Eduard – during their time in Zurich. You can see the results of Swiss pride in his life and achievements in the museums dedicated to him, the many memorial plaques and streets which were named or renamed in his honour.

All pictures and English text by the author.

Front cover, top: Zurich, below: Berne

Biography

Albert Einstein, destined to become one of the most influential physicists of the 19th and 20th centuries, was born in the German city of Ulm, on the River Danube, on 14thMarch 1879. His parents, Hermann and Pauline Einstein, were German Jews. Unfortunately, the house in which this great genius was born, at 20 Bahnhofstrasse, was destroyd by bombing in The Second World War, so it cannot be visited today, even on the outside.

In 1880, when Einstein was only one year old, Hermann Einstein moved his family to Munich, where he started a business with his brother Jakob, making items of electrical equipment. It was in Munich that year that Albert’s sister,