Hans Albert Einstein
Hans Albert Einstein was born on May 14, 1904 in Bern, Switzerland, where his father, Albert Einstein, worked as a clerk in the patent office. His father was of German-Jewish descent and his mother, Mileva Marić, Serbian-Orthodox. His younger brother, Eduard Einstein, was born in 1910 and died in 1965. The fate of his older sister, Lieserl Einstein, Albert Einstein's and Mileva Marić's first child, is unknown. Their parents divorced in 1919 after living apart for five years.
Edith Hirsch (economist)
Edith Hirsch was born in Berlin, Germany to Adolph and Flora Jarislowsky. She was the third of five siblings. Hirsch received a bachelor's degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1925. She met Julius Hirsch at the childhood home of Albert Einstein's wife, who was a good friend of her mother. They married in 1927 and their only child was born in 1928. In 1933, they emigrated to Copenhagen, and in 1941 they moved to the United States. Hirsch earned a master's degree in social science in 1943 at the New School for Social Research in New York. She and her husband taught at the school throughout the 1940s and 50s. She worked as a consultant for many companies with her husband. In 1961, Julius Hirsch died and Edith closed their consulting firm, although she continued publishing papers. She continued working into her later years. She moved to Washington in 1989 and died on January 7, 2003.