Biography of albert einstein childhood facts
Biography of albert einstein childhood facts
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Childhood and Teenage Years
Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879, at 11:30, in the Swavian town of Ulm, in southern Germany, on the banks of the Danube. His birthplace, number 135, Bahnhofstrasse, was razed to the ground during World War II.
He was the eldest son of a Jewish couple, Hermann and Pauline (neé Koch). According to his maternal grandmother, Tette Koch, he was born too fat, with a swollen and slightly deformed head.
When he was barely a year old, his family moved to Munich seeking their fortune from the electrochemical industry in which his father and uncle, Jakob, had been working for some years.
The city had begun a massive transformation from gas lighting to electricity and thought this was a good chance to make their fortune.
At primary school, Albert received a Catholic schooling; the Jewish education that the government demanded for people of his condition had to be acquired at home, even though his parents were agnostic.
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