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'''Conrad Habicht''' (December 28, 1876 in [[Schaffhausen]] – October 23, 1958 in Schaffhausen) was a Swiss mathematician and close personal friend of [[Albert Einstein]]. Together with [[Maurice Solovine]], the three founded the [[Olympia Academy]], an informal circle of friends who met together in [[Bern]] from 1902 to 1904 to discuss physics and philosophy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rosenkranz |first1=Arnold |title=The Einstein Scrapbook |date=2002 |publisher=Jewish National Library |location=Jerusalem |isbn=0-8018-7203-0 |page=2 |edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=Letter to Conrad Habicht 2 February 1902 |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol1-trans/212 |website=einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/ |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brittney |first1=Tom |title=Genius (TV Series) Einstein: Chapter Three (2017) Conrad Habicht |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/genius-2017/season-1/episode-3-einstein-chapter-three|website=metacritic |publisher=metacritic |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>
'''Conrad Habicht''' (December 28, 1876 in [[Schaffhausen]] – October 23, 1958 in Schaffhausen) was a Swiss mathematician and close personal friend of [[Albert Einstein]]. Together with [[Maurice Solovine]], the three founded the [[Olympia Academy]], an informal circle of friends who met together in [[Bern]] from 1902 to 1904 to discuss physics and philosophy.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rosenkranz |first1=Arnold |title=The Einstein Scrapbook |date=2002 |publisher=Jewish National Library |location=Jerusalem |isbn=0-8018-7203-0 |page=2 |edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=Letter to Conrad Habicht 2 February 1902 |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol1-trans/212 |website=einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/ |publisher=Princeton University |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Brittney |first1=Tom |title=Genius (TV Series) Einstein: Chapter Three (2017) Conrad Habicht |url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/genius-2017/season-1/episode-3-einstein-chapter-three|website=metacritic |publisher=metacritic |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>


Habicht and Solovine were the only two witnesses to Einstein's 1903 wedding to [[Mileva Marić]].
Habicht and Solovine were the only two witnesses to Einstein's 1903 wedding to [[Mileva Marić]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=l'Association KronoBase |title=Chronologie: Conrad Habicht Biographie |url=https://www.kronobase.org/chronologie-categorie-Conrad+Habicht.html |website=kronobase |publisher=Kronobase |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>


Habicht was the recipient of Einstein's 1905 letter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-trans/41 |title=Letter of Albert Einstein to Conrad Habicht of May 18 or 25, 1905, Document 27 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5 |accessdate=9 February 2019 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]}}</ref> in which Einstein described his [[Annus Mirabilis papers]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Overbye |first1=Dennis |title=Brace Yourself! Here Comes Einstein's Year |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/science/brace-yourself-here-comes-einsteins-year.html |website=nytimes |publisher=New York Times |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref> Habich also received Einstein's letter about quanta.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=Letter to Conrad Habicht, 14 April 2005 |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-doc/82 |website= Princeton |publisher=Scientific Research |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>
Habicht was the recipient of Einstein's 1905 letter<ref>{{cite web |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-trans/41 |title=Letter of Albert Einstein to Conrad Habicht of May 18 or 25, 1905, Document 27 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5 |accessdate=9 February 2019 |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]}}</ref> in which Einstein described his [[Annus Mirabilis papers]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Overbye |first1=Dennis |title=Brace Yourself! Here Comes Einstein's Year |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/25/science/brace-yourself-here-comes-einsteins-year.html |website=nytimes |publisher=New York Times |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref> Habich also received Einstein's letter about quanta.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Einstein |first1=Albert |title=Letter to Conrad Habicht, 14 April 2005 |url=https://einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/vol5-doc/82 |website= Princeton |publisher=Scientific Research |access-date=26 January 2023}}</ref>

Revision as of 06:15, 26 January 2023

Members of the Olympia Academy: Conrad Habicht, Maurice Solovine, and Albert Einstein

Conrad Habicht (December 28, 1876 in Schaffhausen – October 23, 1958 in Schaffhausen) was a Swiss mathematician and close personal friend of Albert Einstein. Together with Maurice Solovine, the three founded the Olympia Academy, an informal circle of friends who met together in Bern from 1902 to 1904 to discuss physics and philosophy.[1][2][3]

Habicht and Solovine were the only two witnesses to Einstein's 1903 wedding to Mileva Marić.[4]

Habicht was the recipient of Einstein's 1905 letter[5] in which Einstein described his Annus Mirabilis papers.[6] Habich also received Einstein's letter about quanta.[7]

Einstein and Solovine lost contact with Habicht but regained contact in 1947.[8]

Early Life

Habicht came from a middle class family in Schaffhausen and grew up there with four brothers and sisters. Son of Johann Conrad Habicht, merchant, and Susanna Elisabetha Oechslin, from Schaffhausen. ​In 1913 he married Anna Margarethe Kehlstadt, teacher, from Basel. He studied mathematics and physics in Zurich, Munich and Berlin, earning a doctors degree in 1903 at Bern, writing a dissertation on series of circles by Steiner. He studied violin.[9]

University And School Teacher

Habicht taught university master's level mathematics and physics 11 years at Schiers in the Canton of the Graubünden where he also played violin. Then he taught mathematics and physics 33 years at Schaffhausen Canton high school, retiring in 1948.[10]

Habicht and Einstein invented a meter for measuring very small electric potentials in millivolts.[11][12]

Einstrin wrote to Habicht about his first attempt to explain the perihelion advance of Mercury.[13]

Later Life

Habicht was in retirement from teaching ten years, continuing to direct a local music academy until 1958. He died four years after injury in an accident, survived by his wife, four children and ten grand children.[14]

References

  1. ^ Rosenkranz, Arnold (2002). The Einstein Scrapbook (2nd ed.). Jerusalem: Jewish National Library. p. 2. ISBN 0-8018-7203-0.
  2. ^ Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Conrad Habicht 2 February 1902". einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu/. Princeton University. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  3. ^ Brittney, Tom. "Genius (TV Series) Einstein: Chapter Three (2017) Conrad Habicht". metacritic. metacritic. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  4. ^ l'Association KronoBase. "Chronologie: Conrad Habicht Biographie". kronobase. Kronobase. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  5. ^ "Letter of Albert Einstein to Conrad Habicht of May 18 or 25, 1905, Document 27 in The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, Volume 5". Princeton University Press. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
  6. ^ Overbye, Dennis. "Brace Yourself! Here Comes Einstein's Year". nytimes. New York Times. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  7. ^ Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Conrad Habicht, 14 April 2005". Princeton. Scientific Research. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  8. ^ Einstein, Albert (1987). Letters to Solovine (1st English Trans ed.). New York: Plilosophic Library. p. 95. ISBN 0-8022-2526-8.
  9. ^ Schneider, Thomas Franz. "Conrad Habicht". hls-dhs-dss. Il Dizionario storico della Svizzera. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  10. ^ ETH-Bibliothek. "Conrad Habicht". e-periodica. ETH-Bibliothek. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  11. ^ Einstein, Albert. "The Machine - Albert Einstein in a letter to Conrad Habicht, 4 March 1910". einstein-website.de. einstein-website. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  12. ^ Illy, József. "The Practical Einstein: Experiments, Patents, Inventions". U Chicago. University of Chicago.
  13. ^ Einstein, Albert. "A Chronology of the Genesis of General Relativity and its Formative Years - Letter To Conrad Habicht 24 December 1907". degruyter. Princeton University Press. Retrieved 26 January 2023.
  14. ^ Società Elvetica di Scienze Naturali. "Conrad Habicht". e-periodica. ETH-Bibliothek. Retrieved 26 January 2023.


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