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22-530: In his will, Albert Einstein left the Hebrew University his personal papers and the copyright to them. The Albert Einstein Archives contain some 55,000 items. In March 2012, the university announced that it had digitized the archive and was planning to make it more accessible online. The archive initially released 2,000 documents. Within the collection are his personal notes, love letters to various women, including

44-561: A relationship with her cousin Albert Einstein in April 1912, while Albert was still married to his first wife, the physicist and mathematician Mileva Marić . Einstein separated from Mileva in July 1914, sending her and their two sons back to Zürich . Their divorce was finalized on 10 February 1919. Elsa married him three and a half months later, on 2 June 1919. With stepdaughters Ilse and Margot,

66-598: A secretarial assistant. Helen Dukas (1896–1982) began working for Einstein with increased systematization from April 1928, although not all outgoing correspondence was saved. After the Nazis ' rise to power in 1933, Einstein's son-in-law Rudolf Kayser , aided by the French Embassy, rescued Einstein's papers in Berlin . Some of the material at Einstein's summer house in Caputh, Brandenburg

88-507: A son who was born in 1903, but died shortly after birth. They lived together in Hechingen. In 1902, Max Löwenthal took a job in Berlin. His family stayed in Hechingen. She divorced Max on 11 May 1908, and moved with her two daughters to an apartment above her parents on Haberlandstrasse 5, in Berlin. She and her daughters reverted to her maiden name, Einstein, after her 1908 divorce. She began

110-682: The American Friends of the Hebrew University worked on the transfer of the material to Jerusalem. In subsequent years, additional material was sent from Einstein's Princeton home. The Bern Dibner Curatorship, which manages the Albert Einstein Archives, was established in 1988 by the Dibner Fund of Connecticut , USA. The first curator of the Einstein Archives was Ze'ev Rosenkranz whose term extended from 1989 to 2003. The catalogue

132-589: The Princeton Alumni Weekly and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, The Daily Princetonian , and later added book publishing to its activities. Beginning as a small, for-profit printer, Princeton University Press was reincorporated as a nonprofit in 1910. Since 1911, the press has been headquartered in a purpose-built gothic-style building designed by Ernest Flagg . The design of press's building, which

154-501: The Einsteins formed a close-knit family. Although Albert and Elsa did not have any children together, Albert treated Ilse and Margot as his own. They lived in the Berlin area and in 1929 acquired a summer house in Caputh in nearby Potsdam . Ilse also served as Einstein's secretary for a brief period. Elsa spent most of her marriage with Albert acting as his gatekeeper, protecting him from unwelcome visitors and charlatans. She also

176-468: The Hebrew University." After Einstein's death in 1955, the trustees spent many years organizing Einstein's papers. In the 1960s, Helen Dukas and the physicist Gerald Holton of Harvard University in the USA reorganized the archive, with the aim of publishing the material, in a joint project between the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Princeton University Press . The material increased from 14,000 documents at

198-777: The daughter of Rudolf Einstein and Fanny Einstein (née Koch), was born in Hechingen on 18 January 1876. She had two sisters: Paula (1878–1955) and Hermine (1872–1942). Rudolf was a textile manufacturer in Hechingen. During the regular visits with the family in Munich , she often played with her cousin Albert. In her Swabian dialect, she called him "Albertle". The two parted ways in 1894, when Albert left Germany to follow his family to Milan . In 1896, Elsa married textile trader Max Löwenthal (1864–1914), from Berlin , with whom she had three children: daughters Ilse (1897–1934) and Margot (1899–1986), and

220-468: The great editorial achievements in all history." Princeton University Press's Bollingen Series had its beginnings in the Bollingen Foundation , a 1943 project of Paul Mellon 's Old Dominion Foundation. From 1945, the foundation had independent status, publishing and providing fellowships and grants in several areas of study, including archaeology , poetry , and psychology . The Bollingen Series

242-498: The house on Mercer Street. Princeton University Press Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University . Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner , as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive building

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264-595: The removal of access to over 500,000 books from global readers. Six books from Princeton University Press have won Pulitzer Prizes : Books from Princeton University Press have also been awarded the Bancroft Prize , the Nautilus Book Award, and the National Book Award . Multi-volume historical documents projects undertaken by the press include: The Papers of Woodrow Wilson has been called "one of

286-644: The time of Einstein's death in 1955 to around 42,000 documents in 1982. To aid in this work, Einstein's papers were transferred from his Princeton home to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1982, the Einstein Estate transferred Einstein's personal papers to the Jewish National & University Library in Jerusalem. President Avraham Harman of The Hebrew University and Milton Handler of

308-598: The university opened in 1925. Menachem Ussishkin , the president of the Zionist Executive, invited Einstein to settle in Jerusalem, but this was the only visit that Einstein actually made to Jerusalem. However, Einstein was a member of the university's first board of governors. In 1925, the original 46-page manuscript of the general theory of relativity ended up at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Einstein did not save all of his written material, but from 1919, as his fame increased, he employed his stepdaughter Ilse as

330-572: The woman who would become his second wife, Elsa . Also to be included in the online collection is a letter to the Arabic newspaper Falastin , proposing a "Secret Council" composed of Arabs and Jews to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict . Albert Einstein visited Palestine in 1923 for 12 days, giving the first lecture at the Mount Scopus campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem—two years before

352-442: Was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon 's Lectures on Moral Philosophy. Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II . Darrow and Scribner purchased the equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of

374-489: Was destroyed to avoid seizure, although most of his works between 1930 and 1932 were saved. That material was transported via Haberlandstrasse where Einstein lived in Berlin, then to Paris , and ended up stored in Princeton, New Jersey , United States until after Einstein's death. Einstein's 1950 will appointed Helen Dukas and Otto Nathan as trustees of the estate and stated, "[A]ll literary rights and assets shall be vested in

396-747: Was made available online in 2003. Since 2004, Roni Grosz has been the head of the Archives. The Einstein Archives became part of the Hebrew University's Library Authority in January 2008. In July of that year, the Archives moved to the Levy Building on the Givat Ram campus. Since March 19, 2012, the Archives have digitized and made available increasingly more of Einstein's works online. Princeton University Press has also been active in this effort. Elsa Einstein Elsa Einstein (18 January 1876 – 20 December 1936)

418-777: Was named the Scribner Building in 1965, was inspired by the Plantin-Moretus Museum, a printing museum in Antwerp, Belgium. Princeton University Press established a European office, in Woodstock, England, north of Oxford, in 1999, and opened an additional office, in Beijing, in early 2017. Princeton University Press joined The Association of American Publishers trade organization in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit which resulted in

440-494: Was stated in Walter Isaacson 's book, Einstein: His Life and Universe , that he believed "strenuous intellectual work and looking at God's nature are the reconciling, fortifying yet relentlessly strict angels that shall lead me through all of life's troubles". Thus did Einstein try to escape from his troubles by focusing on work that would distract him from Elsa's dying. Elsa died after a painful illness on 20 December 1936, in

462-414: Was the driving force behind building their summer house. In 1933, Albert and Elsa Einstein immigrated to Princeton, New Jersey , US. In autumn 1935, they moved to a house at 112 Mercer Street , bought that August, but shortly afterwards Elsa developed a swollen eye and was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems. When Elsa was diagnosed, Einstein decided to spend much of his time in his studies. It

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484-409: Was the second wife and cousin of Albert Einstein . Their mothers were sisters, thus making them maternal first cousins. The couple were also paternal second cousins (i.e. their fathers were first cousins). Born an Einstein, Elsa gave up the name when she took the surname of her first husband, Max Löwenthal; she and her daughters reverted to her maiden name after Elsa and Löwenthal's 1908 divorce. Elsa,

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