Summary of Allen Esterson & David C. Cassidy's Einstein's Wife

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#1 Mileva Marić was born on December 19, 1875, in the town of Titel in the predominately Serbian province of Vojvodina on the southern border of Hungary. She was the first child of Miloš Marić and Marija Ruzić.

#2 The Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Hungary began to dissolve its Military Frontier. Miloš returned to civilian life in the year of Mileva's birth. She began middle school in 1886 in Novi Sad, and her father decided that she would receive an education as far as her abilities would take her.

#3 After just a year at the Serbian Girls’ School, Mileva transferred in 1887 to another middle school, the Royal Lower Secondary School in Sremska Mitrovica on the Sava River not far from her family's home in Ruma. She was determined to continue her education at a gymnasium.

#4 Mileva attended the Royal Serbian Gymnasium in Šabac, Serbia, in 1890, and the Royal Croatian Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1892. She was admitted as a private student in 1892, and was given a stipend to attend the gymnasium.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669399513

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#1

Mileva Marić was born on December 19, 1875, in the town of Titel in the predominately Serbian province of Vojvodina on the southern border of Hungary. She was the first child of Miloš Marić and Marija Ruzić.

#2

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, and Hungary began to dissolve its Military Frontier. Miloš returned to civilian life in the year of Mileva's birth. She began middle school in 1886 in Novi Sad, and her father decided that she would receive an education as far as her abilities would take her.

#3

After just a year at the Serbian Girls’ School, Mileva transferred in 1887 to another middle school, the Royal Lower Secondary School in Sremska Mitrovica on the Sava River not far from her family's home in Ruma. She was determined to continue her education at a gymnasium.

#4

Mileva attended the Royal Serbian Gymnasium in Šabac, Serbia, in 1890, and the Royal Croatian Gymnasium in Zagreb, Croatia, in 1892. She was admitted as a private student in 1892, and was given a stipend to attend the gymnasium.

#5

Mileva’s grades at the Zagreb gymnasium were good in her first year, but dropped in her second year when she enrolled in physics classes. She persevered and even thrived as best she could, despite the harassment she may have received.

#6

Mileva Marić, after taking the 1894 exams in Zagreb, traveled to Zurich in Switzerland, which was one of the few European countries that fully admitted women to higher education. She enrolled in November 1894 for her last years of preparatory schooling at the Higher Girls’ School.

#7

Mileva attended the Swiss Federal Medical School, but she later switched to physics and mathematics at the Zurich Polytechnic. She was undeterred by the gender discrimination that existed in those fields, and she pursued them anyway.

#8

Mileva was the only woman in her class of physics students at the Zurich Polytechnic. She was also one of only two students majoring in physics in the first-year class.

#9

Einstein's path to the Zurich Polytechnic was much shorter and more direct than Mileva’s. He was born in Ulm in southwestern Germany in 1879, to non-observing Jewish parents. He entered primary school in Munich at the age of six, and received private Jewish religious instruction at home.

#10

Einstein had