Dingler, Hugo, 114, 297n36
Dittrich, Arnošt, 226
Dollfuss, Engelbert, 230
Doppler, Christian, 18, 115
Doppler effect, 115
Dratvová, Albína, 231, 232, 233
Dreyer, John Lewis Emil, 157, 162
Dreyfus Affair, 191
Dubček, Alexander, 247
Dublin, 1–2
Duhem, Pierre, 114
Dukas, Helen, 15
Eckart, Dietrich, 178
Eckstein, Josef, 109–10
Eddington, Arthur Stanley, 64, 66
Edict of Toleration (1781), 32, 191
Ehrenberg, Viktor, 200
Ehrenfels, Christian, Freiherr von, 94, 192–93
Ehrenfest, Paul, 67, 105, 110, 113, 184, 198
Ehrenhaft, Felix, 224
Einstein (Frank), 142–44, 146–49
Einstein, Albert, 257; Abraham viewed by, 69–72, 73; anti-Semitism suspected and denounced by, 42, 210–11; apocryphal accounts of, 9, 43, 144, 238–41; arrival in Prague of, 1, 3, 18–19, 44–46, 216; atomic bomb and, 143; in Berlin, 12, 184–85, 186, 195–96; in Bermuda, 14; Brod’s correspondence with, 171–77; Brod viewed by, 147; as candidate for professorship, 21, 22–26, 38–44; citizenship of, 11–12, 13, 14, 28, 44, 84, 252; communist-era invocation of, 238; death of, 202; departure from Prague of, 1, 19, 75–78; dishevelment of, 5, 180, 239; divorce of, 104, 185; Engels viewed by, 242–43; equivalence principle of, 59–60, 67, 69–70, 72, 75–76, 118; ethnicity of, 16; extramarital affairs of, 97–98, 103, 331–32n32; Hanna Fantova and, 256–61; film project viewed by, 258–59; Frank encouraged by, 124; Frank’s biography of, 43, 85, 99, 112, 142–44, 146–49, 157, 164, 170, 178, 182, 223, 251; general relativity attempted by, 8, 50–52, 61–62, 67–68, 72, 118; German Jews assailed by, 211–12; Halle conference shunned by, 135–36; Hitler’s rant about, 178–79; homesickness declaimed by, 261–62; inaugural lecture of, 91–92; internationalism of, 11–14; international recognition of, 7–8, 64, 109, 197, 210; isolation of, 55, 56, 89, 224; Israeli presidency offered to, 202; Jewish identification of, 13, 15, 16, 42, 180–212, 240, 252; Kafka’s meeting with, 7, 8; Kepler viewed by, 177–78; Kolman’s view of, 243–44; Kraus’s apology to, 140–41; Kraus’s attacks on, 110, 128–29, 132–40; as Kraus’s colleague, 131; language abilities of, 36; light quanta postulated by, 48, 57; Mach viewed by, 116–17, 119–21; marriage to Mileva (Einsteinová) of, 96; Masaryk admired by, 203–5, 214; mass-energy equation of, 57, 63; Mercury’s orbit and, 74; musical avocation of, 93, 94–95; nationalist tensions viewed by, 86; New York visited by, 12–13; Nobel Prize awarded to, 14, 48; Nohel’s escape attempt and, 207–9; pacifism of, 12, 13, 100, 125, 197, 198, 203–4; posthumous reputation of, 10, 54, 249–52; Prague and Zurich contrasted by, 84, 88–89, 90–91, 106–7; Prague maligned by, 87, 88, 96; return to Prague by, 108–10; Slavic cultures conflated by, 99; social circle of, 91–93, 105, 111; solar eclipse conjecture and expedition by, 51, 64–66, 104, 109, 133, 188, 197, 200, 214; at Solvay Conference, 47–50, 78; speeding-train illustration of, 57–59; static theory of, 51, 61–62, 63–65, 67–68, 71, 73–75, 79, 105, 117; teaching responsibilities of, 52–55; Zionism and, 94, 185, 189, 195, 198–202, 211; in Zurich, 3, 12, 51–52, 184, 215
Einstein, Eduard, 45, 96
Einstein, Hans Albert, 45, 85, 96, 97, 99, 105, 250
Einstein, Ilse (Löwenthal), 185
Einstein, Maja, 198–99
Einstein, Pauline, 105
Einstein (Löwenthal), Elsa, 8, 97–98, 103, 104, 109, 110, 136, 160, 185
Einstein and Prague (Bičák), 251
Einstein-Marianoff, Margot (Löwenthal), 15
Einsteinová, Mileva (Marić), 44–45, 88, 95–97, 99–101, 103–4, 106, 185, 255
Einstein’s Brain (Nesvadba), 264–65
Einstein’s Principle of Relativity (Skokan), 228–29
electricity, 23
electromagnetism, 48, 62, 227
Enabling Act (1933), 210
Engels, Friedrich, 242
Entwurf theory of relativity, 51, 72, 75, 76, 117
Eötvös, Roland von, 60
equivalence principle, 59–60, 67, 69–70, 72, 75–76, 118
Euclidean spacetime, 51, 67, 74
Die Fackel (periodical), 165–67
Fanta, Bertha, 8; death of, 94, 111, 253; discussion circle of, 7, 93–94, 131, 146, 171, 177, 258, 265
Fanta, Otto, 256, 258, 260
Fanta (Bergmann), Else, 93, 94, 193, 194–95, 260
Fantova, Hanna (Bobasch, Johanna), 211, 256–61
fascism, 123, 171, 205, 230
Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich (ETH), 11, 22, 51, 72, 78, 96, 106
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, 31, 158
Feyerabend, Paul, 112
Filosofický časopis (periodical), 24–36
Finland, 28
First World War, 66, 100, 108, 125, 152, 196, 241
Fleck, Ludwig, 112
Fölsing, Albrecht, 318n90
France, 171, 232
Frank, Hania (Gerson), 108, 111
Frank, Philipp, 10, 19, 39, 107, 217, 258, 263, 264; death of, 254; displaced scientists aided by, 224–25, 231; as Einstein’s biographer, 43, 85, 99, 112, 142–44, 146–49, 157, 164, 170, 178, 182, 223, 251; Einstein’s critics vs., 134–35; as Einstein’s successor, 108, 113–14, 142, 143–44; in exile, 232, 233; Kraus vs., 111, 115, 123, 124, 128–29, 133–35, 138, 140, 141; as logical positivist 122–26, 128, 133, 173, 223; as Mach’s disciple, 115, 116, 117–18, 119, 121, 127, 244; in United States, 141–42; Záviška and, 227–28
Frankia, 28
Franz Ferdinand, archduke of Austria, 100
Franz Joseph I, emperor of Austria, 36, 182
French Revolution, 2
Freud, Sigmund, 7, 94, 95
Freundlich, Erwin Finlay, 65–67, 75, 223
Fürth, Reinhold, 140, 233, 304n126
Galileo Galilei, 174–76
Galilei in Gefangenschaft (Brod), 173–76
Gandhi, Mohandas, 2
Gauvereine, 126
Gehrcke, Ernst, 132–33, 137, 138, 229, 259
general relativity, 47, 56, 61–62, 66, 68, 72, 105, 108–9, 117, 118, 188, 214, 227, 239, 241; acceptance of, 138, 188, 226; Mach linked to, 119; news reports of, 7–8, 12; obstacles to, 50–52, 79, 88; philosophical implications of, 122, 244; skepticism toward, 73, 137, 229; special relativity distinguished from, 57; theory of gravity linked to, 60, 64, 67, 70, 73–76, 223, 244. See also Entwurf theory of relativity; static theory
German Physical Society, 123, 125–26
German Polytechnic Association, 218
German Polytechnic Institute, 34, 190
German University, Prague, 3, 7, 16, 40, 45, 100, 104–10, 120, 139, 146, 150, 223, 253; abolition of, 237; Charles University vs., 234; conflicts at, 22; diminished status of, 123; intellectual ferment at, 112–13; Jewish enrollment at, 190, 192; medical school of, 37, 38; under Nazis, 236; origins of, 21, 26–28, 36–37, 115; philosophy faculty of, 110–11, 128, 225; reconfiguration of, 221–22
Gerson (Frank), Hania, 108, 111
Goheen, Robert F., 261
Golem (Meyrink), 163, 191, 309n57
Goll, Jaroslav, 33, 37
Gottwald, Klement, 245, 249
gravitation, 50; Abraham’s theory of, 69–71, 75; Einstein’s insights into, 59, 62–63, 69–70, 74, 76; Newtonian theory of, 51, 59, 60–61, 63
Great Depression, 2, 141
Gropius, Walter, 170
Grossmann, Marcel, 51, 56, 72, 76
Gruss, Gustav, 218
Haber, Fritz, 12–13
Habsburg Empire, 23, 80, 81, 100, 254; breakup of, 5, 43, 84, 90, 108, 190, 191, 202; Czech writers in, 216–17; intellectual circles in, 112; language and ethnicity in, 32, 33, 221; Prague under, 16, 17; Utraquists defeated by, 31
Hácha, Emil, 171, 235
Hahn, Hans, 92, 112, 114, 126, 127, 141
Hájek z Hájku (Hagecius), Tadeáš, 153, 155,
162–63
Halla, Franz, 8–9
Hanák, Péter, 274n26
Hannover, 28
Hanseatic League, 28
Harvard University, 142
Hašek, Jaroslav, 102
Hauschner, Auguste, 158
Havas, Peter, 287n86
Havel, Václav, 254
Hayek, Friedrich von, 112
Hebrew language, 94, 150, 173, 176–77, 189
Hebrew Union College, 173
Hebrew University, 197–98, 199, 202
Heidegger, Martin, 141
Heisenberg, Werner, 201
Henlein, Konrad, 211, 232
Hessen, 28
Heyrovský, Jaroslav, 220, 233
Hilsner, Leopold, 191, 238
History of Mechanics (Mach), 120
Hitler, Adolf, 14, 39, 66, 205, 233; Austria invaded by, 207; Einstein excoriated by, 179; Enabling Act and, 210; legislature abolished by, 230; Munich Accords and, 2, 171, 232; Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia formed by, 56, 234–35
Hněvkovsky, Ivan, 250
Hoffmann, Camill, 172
Höfler, Alois, 112
Holocaust, 170, 176, 182, 202, 209, 211
Holy Roman Empire, 17, 145
Hoover, J. Edgar, 15
Hopf, Ludwig, 7, 49, 67, 68, 94, 95, 106, 206
Hostinský, Bohuslav, 229
Howard, Don, 298n51
Hrabák, Miroslav, 53–54
Hradčany district, 34
Hrůzová, Anežka, 191
Hume, David, 120
Hungary, Hungarians, 28, 214, 230, 236
Hurwitz, Lisbeth, 103
Hus, Jan, 29–30, 83, 324n59
Husák, Gustáv, 247, 249, 254
Husserl, Edmund, 112, 130, 139–40, 141
Hussite Wars, 29
Infeld, Leopold, 1, 298–99n54
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 14, 142, 171, 205, 225, 250
Institute for the Unity of Science, 142
Irish Repeal movement, 90
Israel, Hans, 139
Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik, 57, 59, 60
James, William, 108, 116
Janáček, Leoš, 102, 172
Janouch, Ada (Kolman), 247
Janouch, František, 247
Jaumann, Gustav, 25, 26, 39–42, 43, 74–75, 186, 225, 253
Jesuits, 30, 31
Jewish National Assembly, 150
Jews: assimilation of, 32, 317n77; Brod’s identification with, 150, 151, 156, 157, 163–64, 166, 169, 172–76, 192; Czechoslovak recognition of, 202; Einstein’s identification with, 13, 15, 16, 42, 180–212, 240, 252; in Fanta circle, 7, 93; Germans conflated with, 13, 181–82, 189, 190, 194, 200, 210, 211; murder in Protectorate of, 236; in Prague, 10, 15–16, 148, 171, 179, 190, 195; self-identification of, 35; wartime displacement of, 196, 231. See also anti-Semitism
Josefov, Prague, 191
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, 32, 189, 191
Joyce, James, 1–2
Judah Löw ben Bezalel (Maharal), 156–57, 164
Jüdinnen (Brod), 157, 169
Julius, Willem, 62, 77
Juncker, Axel, 152
Jung, Carl, 7, 95
Jupiter, 64, 65
Kafka, Franz, 93–94, 95, 101–2, 129, 131, 152, 258, 265; Bergmann and, 192; Brod and, 148, 150, 168–69, 172, 192; Einstein and, 6–9; Jewish identification of, 181
Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, 12
Kallen (Nohel), Julie, 205
Kant, Immanuel, 94
Kantstudien (periodical), 135
Kastil, Alfred, 129
Kayser, Rudolf (Anton Reiser), 85, 159–60
Kepler, Johannes, 18, 45, 145–46, 147–49, 152–70, 177–78
Kepler, Ludwig, 145
Khrushchev, Nikita, 246, 247
Kilián, J., 250
Klein, Wilhelm, 195
Kleist, Heinrich von, 82
Klopstock, Robert, 8
Koestler, Arthur, 157
Kohl, Emil, 25, 39, 113
Kohn, Hans, 197, 199
Kohn, Walter, 207
Koláček, František, 218, 227
Kolman, Arnošt, 238–49, 250, 254, 262–64
Kolman, Jaromir, 238
Kolman, Julie, 238
Kolman (Janouch), Ada, 247
Komenský (Comenius), Jan Amos, 6
Konstantinovich, Konstantin, grand duke of Russia, 82
Kopal, Zdeněk, 66
Kowalewski, Gerhard, 91–92, 93, 111–12, 137, 157, 254, 258
Kožešník, Jaroslav, 250
Kraft und Stoff (Büchner), 129
Krasnopolski, Horace, 131
Kraus, Ignaz, 129
Kraus, Julius, 158
Kraus, Karl, 165–68
Kraus, Oskar, 238, 258; as Brentano’s disciple, 129–31, 134, 139–40, 141, 263; criticisms of, 111–12; death of, 141, 253; Frank vs., 111, 115, 123, 124, 128–29, 133–35, 138, 140, 141; philosophical views of, 124, 128, 225; recantation by, 140–41; relativity attacked by, 110, 128–29, 132–40, 226
Kuhn, Thomas S., 113, 121, 143
Laemmel, Rudolf, 258
Lakatos, Imre, 112
Lampa, Anton, 54, 105; academic searches and, 23, 24, 38–39, 113, 223; death of, 253; as Mach’s biographer, 118–19; nationalism of, 86, 211; in Vienna, 224
Lanczos, Cornelius, 147, 178
Landauer, Georg, 199
Langevin, Paul, 98
Laplacian operator, 67
Laub, Jakob, 62
Laue, Max von, 60, 65, 184
The Law of Causality and Its Limits (Frank), 114
Lebach, Margarete, 331–32n32
Lecher, Ernst, 23
Lenard, Philipp, 138, 226, 229, 285n41
Lenin, Vladimir, 242, 243, 247
Lesser Town (Malá Strana), 34
Lex Mareš, 221, 236
light: bending of, 10, 51, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 74, 75–76; quanta of, 48, 57; speed of, 57, 61–62, 63, 71–72, 76, 110
Lippich, Ferdinand, 22–23, 39, 41, 86, 206, 211
Literarisches Echo (periodical), 166
Lithuania, 28
Lobachevskii, Nikolai, 246
logical positivism, 117, 120–26, 128, 133, 135, 142, 143, 223
London, 5
Lorentz, Hendrik A., 48, 49, 68, 69
Lorentz transformation, 71
Lotos (natural history society), 133–34
Lotos (periodical), 133, 134–35
Löwenthal, Elsa (Einstein), 8, 97–98, 103, 104, 109, 110, 136, 160, 185
Löwenthal, Max, 97
Löwenthal (Einstein-Marianoff), Margot, 15
Lower Saxony, 28
Luther, Martin, 30
Lutherans, 32
Mach, Ernst, 18, 23, 55, 112, 126, 130, 229, 251; Czech spoken by, 218, 220; death of, 117, 253; as Frank’s mentor, 115, 116, 117–18, 119, 121, 127, 244; influence and reputation of, 42, 66, 218; as Jaumann’s mentor, 25, 40–41, 74, 115; as Lotos member, 133; philosophical views of, 24, 74, 114–16, 119–22, 127; physics institute established by, 56; Planck vs., 117, 118; as university rector, 36–37, 115
Mach, Ludwig, 297n36
Mahler, Gustav, 170
Mahlerová, Otilie, 208
Malá Strana (Lesser Town), 34
Mandl, Rudi W., 331n22
Mann, Heinrich, 231
Mann, Thomas, 8, 173
Marek, F., 164
Maria Celeste, 174
Marian Column, 83
Maria Theresa, empress of Austria, 32, 189, 209
Marić (Einsteinová), Mileva, 44–45, 88, 95–97, 99–101, 103–4, 106, 185, 255
Marty, Anton, 129, 130, 131, 192, 201
Masaryk, Tomáš Garrigue, 123, 171, 191, 220, 225, 230, 237; academic career of, 125, 129–30; Einstein’s admiration for, 203–5, 214; Jews recognized under, 150, 202, 221; refugees welcomed by, 231
Materialism and Empirio-Criticism (Lenin), 242
Mathesius, Vilém, 219–20
Mausch
eldeutsch, 189
The Meaning of Relativity (Einstein), 229
Mecklenburg, 28
Der Meister (Brod), 177
Mendeleev, Dmitrii I., 220
Menger, Carl, 112
Mercury (planet), 61, 74
Metamorphosis (Kafka), 6, 152
Meyer, Stefan, 39
Meyeriade (Kraus), 129, 133
Meyrink, Gustav, 163, 191
Mie, Gustav, 73, 75
Minkowski, Hermann, 57, 71, 118, 119, 226
Moldau River (Vltava), 17, 27, 80, 87
Montags-Revue, 187–88
Moravia, 5, 28, 56, 67
Moudrý, Pavel, 203
Munich Accords (1938), 2, 171, 232, 234
Münzberger, Bedřich, 80
Murray, Gilbert, 13
Myslbek, Václav, 81, 83
Nachtikal, František, 225–26
Nadolny, Rudolf, 14
Nagel, Ottilie, 95
Nazis, 26, 55–56, 66–67, 171, 205, 210, 222, 236, 252; Einstein’s citizenship revoked by, 14; Prague occupied by, 17, 141, 172, 253; refugees from, 231
Nernst, Walther, 48, 49, 147, 149, 169
Nesvadba, Josef, 264–65
Netherlands, 28
Neue Freie Presse, 106
Die neue Rundschau (periodical), 160
Neurath, Otto, 112, 114, 126, 127, 141, 142
Newtonian theory, 51, 59, 60–61, 63, 133, 214, 243
Newton’s Brain (Arbes), 264
New Town, Prague, 34, 81
Nicolai, Georg, 258
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 271n9
Nobel Prize, 39, 47, 203, 204–5, 206, 207, 220; Einstein’s receipt of, 14, 48
Nohel, Emil, 205–9
Nohel, Julie (Kallen), 205
Nohel, Yeshayahu (Heinrich), 205, 206–7, 208–9
Nordström, Gunnar, 73–74, 76
Norway, 28
Nuremberg Laws, 236
O’Connell, Daniel, 90
Old Town, Prague, 34–35, 83, 189, 191
One Hundred Authors Against Einstein (Israel et al.), 139
On the Principle of Relativity (Dittrich), 226
Open Letters to Albert Einstein and Max von Laue (Kraus), 138
optics, 24
Ossietzky, Carl von, 205
Ostwald, Wilhelm, 47
Ottoman Empire, 100
Ouckh, Jesa d’, 160–61
Pais, Abraham, 44
Palacký, František, 81–82, 83
Palacký Bridge, 80–82
Palme, Olof, 248
Paris, 2, 5
Paris Peace Conference (1919–20), 90
Petzoldt, Josef, 135, 136
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