The Child Of Hermann And Pauline Einstein

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Born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany, Albert Einstein was the firstborn child of Hermann and Pauline Einstein, a secular Jewish couple. Upon failing in the industry of featherbedding, Hermann moved the family to Munich, Germany in order to start a new business in electrical engineering with his brother Jakob. Two years after Albert was born, his sister, Maria, came into the picture, later becoming the best friend of his childhood. It is documented that Einstein’s first interaction and true spark of major interest in science came at a rather young age of five or six, when his father showed him a compass. He was intrigued by the fact that no matter which way you spun it, it pointed in the same direction. It was not long after that Einstein began schooling in Petersschule (Peter’s School) in Munich. Moving through Peter’s School with not much difficulty, but moreover with a simple discomfort of the military style formality, he joined the Luitpold Gymnasium in Munich at the age of ten. Despite his genius for which he is revered today, Einstein struggled in elementary school. In fact, Einstein had not learned to speak until the age of three, a rather late time relative to most children. He found school rather dull and stiff as it had a stronger focus on Latin and Greek as opposed to his talents and interests, science and mathematics. In 1893, Hermann and Jakob sold the electrical engineering business after not performing when tasked with electrifying Munich, consequently

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