There is a text circulating on the Internet that is believed to have been written by Albert Einstein for his daughter “Lieserl”. However, it is not clear whether he actually wrote it himself.

Although the message in this letter is a truly beautiful one, there are many indications that Albert Einstein did not write this letter himself.

It is a letter about love, to his daughter “Lieserl”:

After I published the theory of relativity, almost no one wanted to understand me. What I am now revealing to humanity is once again encountering a world full of incomprehension and prejudice. Therefore, please hold back this letter until people have evolved to the point where everyone understands what I am talking about.

There are many forces that act on anything, but there is also an incredibly powerful force that science has not yet found an explanation for. This force influences everything else, it stands above all phenomena in the universe and yet we have not yet understood it.

This power is love.

Scientists have forgotten this most powerful, invisible force. Love is the light that illuminates those who give and receive it.

Love is almost like gravity because it makes people feel drawn to each other, like two magnets.

Love is the strongest force of all because it is what prevents humanity from perishing in its blind selfishness.

We live and die for love.

Love is our God and God is our love.

This power explains everything and gives our lives meaning. It is an inconspicuous force that we have ignored for far too long. Maybe because we are afraid of it, since it is the only force in the universe that cannot be controlled scientifically.

Humanity will continue to fail when it comes to exploring, harnessing, and controlling the powers of the universe. That's why it's so important that we nourish ourselves with a different energy and don't forget love alongside science!

If we want humanity to continue to survive, if we want to find meaning in life, if we want to save the world and everything that lives in it, then love is the only right answer!

Maybe even after this publication we are not yet strong enough to destroy all the hatred, selfishness and greed that is poisoning our planet little by little.

If we learn to give and accept this universal energy in the form of love, my dear Lieserl, we will find that love can overcome everything, because love is the true essence of life.

Please excuse me for never being able to show my love directly. Maybe it's too late to apologize, but since time is relative, I can still tell you that I love you now. Thanks to you I found the final answer, the answer of life!

With love, your father Albert Einstein.

It is true that it was only in 1986 that 54 love letters emerged that came from Albert Einstein to his first wife Mileva Marić. These were published in the 1992 book “ The Love Letters ”. Mileva's granddaughter Evelyn found photocopies of them. Her stepmother gave her to the Einstein Archives at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1986.

It was also revealed that Albert Einstein had a daughter named “Lieserl” at a very early age. She was born near Belgrade in 1902. Since then, researchers have been trying in vain to unravel the whereabouts of the child. However, it is not known what became of the girl.

Michele Zackheim was so captivated by this mystery that she wrote a book about it Einstein’s Daughter The American journalist went looking for “Lieserl”. Albert and Mileva had kept the child's existence a secret. It is possible that “Lieserl” died of scarlet fever in 1903 or was given up for adoption.

After “Lieserl” died in 1903 or it is not certain whether she survived her childhood and her whereabouts are unclear, the statement from the article above cannot be correct:

Einstein had a daughter, whom he lovingly called Lieserl, and he wrote loving letters to her throughout his life.
In the late 1980s, Lieserl gave all of her father's letters to Hebrew University with the condition that they not be published until 20 years later.

It remains controversial whether this letter to “Lieserl” was actually in these memoirs. It does not appear anywhere in its entirety and has not been officially documented anywhere in the media. Apart from the fact that after 1903 not a word was said about “Lieserl”.

Our colleagues at Snopes also believe that this text was not written by Einstein himself and provide three clues:

 

This letter is very much unlike, in tone and content, any other extant correspondence or writing of the famous scientist, particularly in the latter part of his life. (The reference to Einstein's famous mass/energy equivalence E = mc 2 would date this letter to no earlier than 1946, as that was the first time Einstein expressed the equivalence in that form.)

Even allowing for the vagaries of translation (in letters that may have been written in German rather than English), searches on resources such as the Einstein Archives Online and the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein fail to turn up any matches on any of several distinctive phrases from the letter.

We found no reproduction of, or reference to, this alleged letter in print or online prior to its seemingly sudden appearance on the Internet in April 2015.

  • This letter is very different in tone and content from other extant correspondence or writings by the famous scientist, especially from the later part of his life. (The reference to Einstein's famous mass/energy equivalence e=mc² would date this letter to no earlier than 1946, at which time he first expressed this equivalence in this form.)
  • Even taking into account the uncertainties of translation (in letters written in German rather than English), searches for original sources in the Einstein Archive Online and the collected papers of Albert Einstein failed to produce any hits on one of several striking sentences from the letter can be found.
  • We found no copy or reference to the alleged letter in print or online before its sudden appearance online in April 2015.
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But even if this letter was not written by the genius, the message of the text is entirely positive and beautiful.

Result:

There are “only” love letters from Albert Einstein to his first wife Mileva Marić; there is no evidence that Einstein also wrote letters directly to his first illegitimate daughter, who was previously kept secret. However, “Lieserl” is mentioned in these letters until 1903.

The statement that the letters were handed over to the Hebrew University by Lieserl himself in the 1980s is false, as it was never conclusively clarified what happened to “Lieserl” after 1903.

Sources:

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