Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић) (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948) was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe. She was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.
On December 19, 1875, Mileva Marić was born into a wealthy family in Titel in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today in Serbia) the eldest of three children of Miloš Marić (1846–1922) and...
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Mileva Marić (Serbian Cyrillic: Милева Марић) (December 19, 1875 – August 4, 1948) was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe. She was Albert Einstein's fellow student at the Zurich Polytechnic, and later became his first wife.
On December 19, 1875, Mileva Marić was born into a wealthy family in Titel in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (today in Serbia) the eldest of three children of Miloš Marić (1846–1922) and Marija Ružić - Marić (1847–1935). Shortly after her birth, her father ended his military career and took a job at the court in Ruma and later in Zagreb. She began her secondary education in 1886 at a high school for girls in Újvidék (today Novi Sad in Serbia), but changed the following year to a high school in Sremska Mitrovica. Beginning in 1890, she attended the Royal Serbian Grammar School in Šabac. In 1891 her father obtained special permission to enroll Marić as a private student at the all male Royal Classical High School in Zagreb. She...
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