Albert einstein – 5 minute biographies

Podcast: Play in new window Download. His parents were Pauline Koch and Hermann Einstein who was an engineer and a salesman. Not long after Albert was born, in , the Einstein family moved to Munich where Hermann and his brother Jakob founded a company which manufactured electrical equipment. From the age of five, Albert attended a Catholic school in Munich and transferred to the Luitpold Gymnasium three years later.

He continued his primary and secondary education there for the next seven years.

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They headed to Italy, first to Milan and then to Pavia but Albert stayed behind in Munich to complete his studies. The following year, at the age of sixteen, Albert Einstein sat but failed the entrance exam for entry into the Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich. It was noticed though that it was the general studies part of the exam that performed poorly on, whereas his performance on the physics and mathematics parts was excellent.

So, he became a pupil at the Argovian cantonal school in Aarau instead, which is where he completed his secondary education.

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At the age of only seventeen, he then enrolled in a four-year teaching diploma in physics and mathematics at Zurich Polytechnic. In , Einstein was awarded his diploma, but Mileva failed the mathematics portion of the exam. After graduating, Einstein looked for a teaching post. In , he became a Swiss citizen and took a job as an assistant examiner — level III at the Federal Office for Intellectual Property where he evaluated patent applications.

After searching for a teaching post for two years and failing to find one, the patent office job became permanent in Letters between Albert Einstein and Mileva which were discovered in reveal that the couple had a daughter in while Mileva was staying with her parents in Novi Sad in Serbia. However, when she returned to Switzerland she came without the child and its fate is unknown but it is believed she was either adopted or died of scarlet fever.

Eduard, their second son was born in Zurich in July