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In November 2009, subsequent to this very good work on Einstein's illegitimate daughter 'Lieserl', British researcher Tim Symonds came up with a 'Fourth Theory' to explain the mystery of Lieserl Maric-Einstein who disappears from the world in September 1903, aged about 21 months. Symonds agrees with Zackheim's suggestion that the daughter was born seriously mentally handicapped. This explains the lack of photos, the blanket of silence which immediately and permanently enveloped the child until she died and beyond. Symonds says Lieserl was deliberately killed, an act of mercy-killing, with Albert Einstein's consent but not direct involvement in the act - he never visited the daughter once in her short life. The probable person who committed the act, Symonds suggests, was Milos Maric, the father of Lieserl's mother Mileva Maric. Mercy killing was not legal in the Austro-Hungarian Empire but was widespread and even if a court found anyone guilty, it was almost always only a suspended sentence but it would be an act everyone would want to cover up.
This Fourth Theory is the only one which meets every aspect of the mystery. The other three simply tail out - that she died of scarlet fever (why no death certificate?), she was adopted (why no adoption papers or transfer of support money?) or handed to a home for mentally handicapped infants (again, where? And who did the paying for this?)
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Einstein's Daughter: The Search for Lieserl by Michele Zackheim
tim.symonds, November 27, 2009
In November 2009, subsequent to this very good work on Einstein's illegitimate daughter 'Lieserl', British researcher Tim Symonds came up with a 'Fourth Theory' to explain the mystery of Lieserl Maric-Einstein who disappears from the world in September 1903, aged about 21 months. Symonds agrees with Zackheim's suggestion that the daughter was born seriously mentally handicapped. This explains the lack of photos, the blanket of silence which immediately and permanently enveloped the child until she died and beyond. Symonds says Lieserl was deliberately killed, an act of mercy-killing, with Albert Einstein's consent but not direct involvement in the act - he never visited the daughter once in her short life. The probable person who committed the act, Symonds suggests, was Milos Maric, the father of Lieserl's mother Mileva Maric. Mercy killing was not legal in the Austro-Hungarian Empire but was widespread and even if a court found anyone guilty, it was almost always only a suspended sentence but it would be an act everyone would want to cover up.This Fourth Theory is the only one which meets every aspect of the mystery. The other three simply tail out - that she died of scarlet fever (why no death certificate?), she was adopted (why no adoption papers or transfer of support money?) or handed to a home for mentally handicapped infants (again, where? And who did the paying for this?)
(13 of 15 readers found this comment helpful)