The physician, however, was able to calm them down and some weeks later the shape of the head was normal. On the following day Hermann Einstein registered his son at the registry office in Ulm with the name Albert.Īs the back of the head seemed much too big, the family initially considered a monstrosity. On March 14, 1879, a Friday, Pauline Einstein gave birth to her first child, a boy, in their residence in the Bahnhofstrasse. When he was shown a photo of his destroyed birth-place he wrote in his reply: “Time has affected it even much more than it has affected me.” Einstein did not have any special relation to his birth-place. The house, erected in 1871, was destroyed in December 1944 during one of the heaviest bombardments of Ulm. About his birth-place in the Bahnhofstrasse 20, in a letter to Carlos Erlanger, son of the house-owner at that time, Einstein wrote in April 1929: “To be born the house is quite nice because on this occasion one does not yet have major aesthetic needs instead one cries at his beloved ones without worrying much about reasons and conditions.”
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