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Also known as Mileva Einstein, Mileva Marić Einstein

Serbian mathematician and wife of Albert Einstein (1875–1948)

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Mileva Marić was a female physicist, mathematician, and teacher born in Titel, Vojvodina, in 1875. A member of the Serbs ethnic group, she held citizenship in the Kingdom of Hungary, Germany, and Serbia. She was educated at the University of Zurich, ETH Zurich, and Heidelberg University. Her native language was Serbian, and she also spoke German, Serbian, and Croatian.

She was married to Albert Einstein, and they had two children, Eduard Einstein and Hans Albert Einstein. Marić resided in Novi Sad and Smíchov. She maintained affiliations with the Einstein family and had a sibling named Miloš Marić. Her religious worldview included Judaism and Eastern Orthodoxy. She died in Zurich in 1948.

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Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић, pronounced [milěːva mǎːritɕ]; 19 December 1875 – 4 August 1948), sometimes called Mileva Marić-Einstein (Милева Марић-Ајнштајн, Mileva Marić-Ajnštajn), was a Serbian mathematician. She also was the first wife of Albert Einstein from 1903 to 1919. She was the only woman among Einstein's fellow students at Zurich Polytechnic. Marić and Einstein were study colleagues and lovers, and had a daughter Lieserl in 1902, who likely died of scarlet fever at one and a half years old. They later had two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. The question of whether she contributed to Einstein's early work (in particular the annus mirabilis papers) has been debated.

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