Eduard Einstein

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Eduard Einstein (28 July 1910 – 25 October 1965) was born in Zurich, the second son of physicist Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić. Einstein and his family moved to Berlin in 1914, but shortly thereafter Mileva returned to Zurich, taking Eduard and his brother.

Eduard was a good student and had musical talent. He had ambitions to become a psychoanalyist. But at the age of twenty he became afflicted with schizophrenia and two years later was institutionalized for the first time. After that Eduard had a minimal relationship with his father.^[1] Mileva cared for him until she died in 1948. He died in an asylum at age 55. His family lineage has been used to raise public awareness of schizophrenia.

Albert Einstein did not suffer from schizophrenia; some people, however, have speculated that he was a slow learner or had a condition like Asperger's syndrome or dyslexia.^[2] Asperger’s syndrome, furthermore, has sometimes been misdiagnosed as schizophrenia in children, particularly by psychiatrists unfamiliar with Asperger’s syndrome.