Chronology Of Einstein's Life

1879
Albert Einstein is born as the first child of the Jewish couple Hermann and Pauline Einstein, nee Koch in Ulm on March 14 at 11.30 am.
1880
In June the family moves to Munich where Hermann Einstein and his brother found the electro technical company Einstein & Cie.
1881 Albert’s sister Maria – called Maja – is born in Munich on November 18.

1882
1883
1884
Albertis given private lessons as preparation for school. His father shows him a compass which fascinates him very much (the first “wonder”).
1885
Albert attends Petersschule, a catholic elementary school in Munich from October 1. He is a good pupil. At home he is given lessons in Jewish religion. Albert starts to learn the violin.
1886
1887
1888 He attends Luitpold-Gymnasium (grammarschool) in Munich from October 1.
1889
Max Talmud (later: Talmey), a Jewish medical student, becomes in the following years the tutor of young Albert. Together they read and discuss scientific and philosophic works.
1890
1891

At the age of 12 Albert gets to know the “holy geometry book”, whose content “impresses him very much” (the second “wonder”). With the help of a teacherand a Rabbi, Albert prepares to become a “Bar-Mizwa” - a full member of the Jewish community.
1892 However, he does not go to his “Bar-Mizwa” because he starts to become a freethinker.
1893
1894


Due to reasons at work Hermann Einstein, his wife and his daughter move to Italy - first to Milan, then to Pavia and finally back to Milan again. Albert stays with relatives in Munich tofinish school. He leaves Luitpold-Gymnasium without a degree in December and follows his family to Milan.
1895



Albert who does not pass the entrance examination for the Polytechnic (later called Swiss Technical College, ETH) in Zurich at the beginning of October, attends the trade department of the school in Aarau in late October to make up for the school leaving examination (Matura). InAarau he lives with the family of one of his teachers, Jost Winteler. He writes his first scientific work, however, it is not published.
1896



At the age of 17 Albert Einstein gives up the Wurttemberg and thus the German citizenship with the approval of his father. For the following 5 years he is stateless. At the beginning of October he passes his Matura (general qualification foruniversity entrance) in Aarau and begins to study at the Polytechnic in Zurich in the same month. His aim is to achieve the certificate of a subject teacher for mathematics and physics. His fellow students are among others Mileva Maric and Marcel Grossmann.

1897 Einstein meets Michele Besso in Zurich. They stay friends for all their life.
1898 In October Albert successfully passes hisintermediate testing for the diploma.
1899 In Zurich Einstein files the application for the Swiss citizenship.
1900


Albert Einstein finishes his studies at the ETH Zurich with the subject teacher diploma for mathematics and physics. Subsequently he applies, however, without success for the job of an assistant at the Polytechnic and at various universities. In December he hands in his firstscientific work to the “Annalen der Physik” (Annals of Physics).
1901





In February Einstein is granted the Swiss citizenship. His first scientific work is published in the “Annalen der Physik” in March. He continuously applies for a job as assistant, however, without any success. From May to June he works temporarily as teacher in Winterthur and from September for a private school inSchaffhausen. He starts working on his dissertation which he hands in at the University in Zurich in November. In December he applies for a job at the Swiss Patent Office in Bern. His former fellow student, Marcel Grossmann, had helped him find this job.
1902



Lieserl, the illegitimate daughter of Albert Einstein and Mileva Maric, his former fellow student, is born in Hungary in...