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| Born | Maria Einstein (1881-11-18)18 November 1881 Munich, German Empire |
| Died | 25 June 1951(1951-06-25) (aged 69) |
| Occupation | Romanist |
| Spouse | Paul Winteler |
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| Relatives | Albert Einstein (brother) |
Maria "Maja" Einstein Winteler (18 November 1881 - 25 June 1951) was a GermanRomanist and the younger sister of the physicistAlbert Einstein.
Einstein was born inMunich. Her mother wasPauline Einstein (née Koch) and her father wasHermann Einstein. Einstein attended elementary school in Munich. Through mismanagement the family got into financial difficulties and moved to Italy. In Milan she attended the German-speaking International School from 1887 to 1894. In 1899 she moved toAarau, where her brotherAlbert attended the Kantonsschule and joined the family of the school professorJost Winteler. There she met his youngest son Paul Winteler, her future husband. In Aarau she was a student of the teacher's seminar from 1899 to 1902. After the death of her father she acquired the teacher's patent in 1905.
Einstein studied Romance languages and literature in Berlin,Bern, and Paris. She received her doctorate from theUniversity of Bern in 1909 with the dissertationFeststellung des Handschriftenverhältnises des Chevalier au Cygne und Enfances Godefroy. On 23 March 1910 she married Paul Winteler and lost her work permit as a result.
Einstein and her husband moved to Lucerne-Bramberg. After the death of Maja Einstein's mother in 1920, they moved to Italy and acquired an estate outside Florence in Colonnata (Sesto Fiorentino). In 1924, her brotherAlbert gave them 7,000Reichsmarks to pay off debts that burdened the estate. Their financial problems continued due to unemployment.
Following the introduction ofanti-Semitic laws byBenito Mussolini in Italy, Maja Einstein relocated to theUnited States in February 1939. She moved to Princeton to live with her brotherAlbert on Mercer Street. Her husband Paul was denied entry to enter the U.S. for health reasons, and he stayed with relatives inGeneva.[1] Maja Einstein intended to return home after the end of theSecond World War. In 1946 she suffered astroke. She later developedarteriosclerosis and became bedridden, which prevented her from returning to Europe. Einstein maintained a correspondence with Paul until her death. She died on 25 June 1951 ofpneumonia as a result of a fracture of the upper arm in Princeton.[2] Her husband died on 15 July 1952 in Geneva.
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