Family Life

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During one of his part time teaching positions his eye was caught by a young Serbian woman, Meleva Maric. She was the only woman in his physics class; yet Albert would not talk of marriage, even after she bore his daughter and gave it up for adoption. Once Albert was hired full time with the Swiss Patent Office in Bern he had enough money to begin thinking about marriage and he and Meleva were married in 1903. With this new job Albert had the time to write his thoughts down and to.

Meleva gave birth to two sons Hans Albert in 1904 and Eduard in 1

910. Hans would grow up and become a successful hydraulic engineer, while Eduard grew up being sick most of his life.

In 1914 the German government offered Albert a position at the University of Berlin as well as a membership to the Prussian Academy of Sciences. This was a wonderful opportunity and Albert could not say no. This was one of the highest positions someone could reach in the world of science.

Albert did not have enough time for his family and his wife complained. He got sick and tired of her complaining he found himself trying to stay away from her and he reached out to another. He committed adultery with his cousin Elsa Löwenthal. In the summer of 1914 Meleva took the boys for a summer trip and never returned thereby leaving Albert. In 1919 a divorce was formally reached and in that same year he married Elsa and moved in with her and her two grown daughters, from a previous marriage.