Elsa Einstein
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Elsa Einstein (18 January 1876-20 December 1936) was the wife and cousin of Albert Einstein. She was the daughter of Rudolf Einstein and Fanny (née Koch) and was born in Hechingen, Germany.[1] She married firstly Max Löwenthal (1864-1914), a textiles trader from Berlin, with whom she had three children, but from whom she was divorced by 1908.[1] Albert Einstein was her second husband, whom she married in 1919.[1] With daughters Ilse and Margot (the third child had died by now) the Einsteins were a close-knit family. Although Albert and Elsa never produced any children of their own, Albert raised Ilse and Margot as his own. They lived in the Berlin area, also having a summer house in nearby Potsdam, although by 1933 they had emigrated to Princeton, New Jersey, USA.[1]
