Sherlock Holmes and The Mystery Of Einstein's Daughter

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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm and grew up in Munich, bustling, wealthy towns in the Swabian region of southern Germany. At the age of five he was shown how a compass needle always swings to magnetic North. From that moment he determined to become a great physicist, more famous than Isaac Newton.

Even today it is not widely known that at the age of twenty-three Einstein sired an illegitimate daughter with Mileva Marić, a physics student he met at the Zurich Polytechnikum, later his first wife. Mileva’s father Miloš had risen from the peasantry through the Army and the Austria-Hungarian civil service to a position of influence throughout the Vojvodina region of Serbia.

Mileva and Albert referred to the infant daughter by the Swabian diminutive ‘Lieserl’ – Little Liese. Her life was fleeting. At around 21 months of age she disappeared from the face of the Earth. The real Lieserl may never have come to the eyes of the outside world but for an unexpected find eighty three years after her disappearance. In California Einstein’s first son Hans Albert Einstein investigated an old shoebox tucked away on the top shelf of a wardrobe. It contained several dozen yellowed letters in German type, an exchange between Albert and Mileva. Italian, Swiss, German and Austro-Hungarian postmarks reflected their peripatetic life. Several letters dated between early 1901 and 1903 mention Lieserl. After September 1903 her name never appears again. Anywhere.

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