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Einstein and Weber : 

Einstein and Weber To the saucy and strong–willed Mileva Maric, with whom his romance had turned intense, Einstein wrote on 27 March 1901, “I’m absolutely convinced that Weber is to blame….it doesn’t make any sense to write to any more professors, because they’ll surely turn to Weber for information about me at a certain point, and he’ll just give me another bad recommendation.” To a close friend, Marcel Grossmann, he wrote on 14 April 1901, “I could have found [an Assistent position] long ago had it not been for Weber’s underhandedness. All the same, I leave no stone unturned and do not give up my sense of humor…God created the donkey and gave him a thick hide.”

Einstein and Mileva Maric: 

Einstein and Mileva Maric    A thick hide he needed; not only was he searching fruitlessly for a job, but his parents were vehemently opposing his plans to marry Mileva, and his relationship to Mileva was growing turbulent. Of Mileva his mother wrote, “This Miss Maric is causing me the bitterest hours of my life, if it were in my power, I would make every effort to banish her from our horizon, I really dislike her.” And of Einstein’s mother, Mileva wrote, “That lady seems to have made it her life’s goal to embitter as much as possible not only my life but also that of her son.… I wouldn’t have thought it possible that there could exist such heartless and outright wicked people!”

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Left: Einstein seated at his desk in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland, ca. 1905. Right: Einstein with his wife, Mileva, and their son Hans Albert, ca. 1904