Was Albert Einstein The Worst Possible Person Ever?

Albert Einstein, 1944

The honest answer to the title question is that I don't know because - thank goodness - I wasn't there. Albert Einstein (1879-1955) was a peculiar little boy, in that he took longer to develop than most children. Einstein only started speaking at the age of 3, but he would have a hard time voicing his thoughts and could repeat the same sentence over and over again, sometimes one that had just been spoken by someone else. 

Throughout his entire childhood he fought with authority figures in several different educational institutions, resulting in difficulties with graduating said institutions. He also failed more than one test, and we all know how devastating it is to fail a test in middle school. 

When he was 5-years old, Einstein's mother Pauline - who came from a wealthy Jewish family and loved to play piano - arranged for Einstein to have violin lessons. Of course the 5-year old boy didn't want to be at violin lessons, so he may have thrown objects at his violin teacher. In fact, Einstein was well-known for throwing tantrums as well as objects at people whom he disliked. Once, one of those people was his little sister, and he threw something heavy at her head. Apparently, this resulted in some long-term health issues for her. Is this information real, I don't know. Did I read it on the internet? Yes. Yes, I did.

Despite all that nonsense, Einstein did learn how to play the violin quite well and even enjoyed it! He was an enormous fan of Mozart and played duets with his mother, who would accompany him on piano. How lovely!

Albert Einstein, 1921

As an adult, Einstein hated wearing socks? Can't really blame him, and does this really make him a horrible person? In the 1930s, Einstein was proud of the fact that he didn't have to wear socks while giving lectures at Oxford. Monstrous. The reason? The big toe inevitably makes an eventual hole in any sock, and so one must avoid this insufferable discomfort by eliminating the primary variable: the sock.

In 1895, Einstein failed the entrance exam into the polytechnic school in Zürich and had to enroll in a private school in Aarau, Switzerland to complete his secondary schooling and prepare for the entrance exam, again. While studying here, he lived with Jost Winteler, a professor at that school. Wikipedia says that Einstein fell in love with Winteler's daughter. But while Einstein's sister ended up marrying Winteler's son, Einstein essentially dumped Winteler's daughter, Marie, as soon as he graduated the school and finally succeeded at enrolling in the Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zürich. Believe it or not - I really don't - this short documentary claims that Einstein, after leaving the Winteler household for Zürich, continued sending Marie parcels with his dirty laundry for her to wash and MAIL BACK TO HIM. If this is real and she was actually doing his laundry for him, she must have been really committed to keeping their relationship alive. 

In 1903, Einstein married his college sweetheart Mileva Marić, the only female student enrolled at the Swiss Federal polytechnic school in Zürich. Did he sit next to her in class because he was in love with her or because he needed her to tutor him? We shall never know. Marić was not conventionally attractive, had a limp, and was several years older than Einstein. In 1902, a year before getting married, they might have had an illegitimate daughter, Lieserl. The baby girl was left with Marić's parents, and later was either given up for adoption or had died.

Throughout their marriage, Einstein was most definitely unfaithful. Einstein divorced Marić in 1919, giving Marić his Nobel Prize money as per their marriage agreement. The couple had fallen apart back in 1914, when Marić took their two sons and moved back to Zürich, while Einstein remained living in Berlin. In July of 1914, Einstein informed his wife Marić that if she wished to remain married to him she would have to adhere to his new marriage contract, in which he listed her cleaning obligations and rid himself of any spousal duties in terms of intimacy, travel, or even regular communication. 

The same year that Einstein and Marić divorced (1919), Einstein married his COUSIN, after having an affair with her "behind" his wife's back since 1912. 

Mileva Marić and Albert Einstein, 1912

The couple moved to the U.S. in 1933, but his cousin-and-wife was diagnosed with heart and kidney problems in 1935 and then died in 1936. Back in 1923, Einstein "fell in love" with his friend's niece, while being married to his second wife. When already in the U.S., Einstein had an affair with a Russian spy, Margarita Konenkova, whose husband was a sculptor who created a bronze bust of Einstein located at Princeton. 

Einstein died in 1955 at Princeton Hospital and the pathologist took Einstein's brain out WITHOUT THE FAMILY'S CONSENT, to investigate what made Einstein so intelligent. Probably all the sex he was having.    

Please remember that although my writing here on The Freako Diva sounds and looks very convincing and authentic, it is not thoroughly researched. Although I provide sources, most of the information is from Wikipedia (Viva La Wikipedia!) and potentially unreliable websites. Be cautious.