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Evelyn Einstein Dies at 70; Shaped by a Link to Fame
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Evelyn Einstein, whose tumultuous life as the granddaughter of Albert Einstein was both defined and limited by her distinguished lineage, died on Wednesday at her home in Albany, Calif. She was 70.
Her friend Allen P. Wilkinson, who said he had begun to work with her on her memoirs in recent weeks, confirmed the death. He said she had been treated for heart and lung disease and diabetes.
"She thought Albert was not just a great scientist," Mr. Wilkinson said. "To her, he was Grampa."
Ms. Einstein spoke four or five languages and earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, including a master's in medieval literature. But she worked as a dogcatcher, a cult deprogrammer and a police officer. After a bitter divorce, she lived in poverty for three months, sleeping in cars and eating discarded food as a self-described "Dumpster diver."
Evelyn Einstein was born in Chicago in 1941 and soon adopted by Hans Albert Einstein, Einstein's son, and his wife, Frieda. For years she said in interviews that she had been told as a child that she was actually the child of Albert Einstein and a ballet dancer, though she acknowledged that she had no proof. Ms. Einstein saw her grandfather infrequently as a child, because he lived in Princeton, N.J., and her family was in California.
During the 1960s and '70s, Ms. Einstein was married for 13 years to Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University. When their marriage broke up, she moved in with her father, but he soon died. A period of homelessness followed, ending when she got a job as a store clerk and moved in with three women in Berkeley.
Ms. Einstein left no immediate survivors.
- New York Times
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Evelyn Einstein Dies at 70; Shaped by a Link to Fame
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Evelyn Einstein, whose tumultuous life as the granddaughter of Albert Einstein was both defined and limited by her distinguished lineage, died on Wednesday at her home in Albany, Calif. She was 70.
Her friend Allen P. Wilkinson, who said he had begun to work with her on her memoirs in recent weeks, confirmed the death. He said she had been treated for heart and lung disease and diabetes.
"She thought Albert was not just a great scientist," Mr. Wilkinson said. "To her, he was Grampa."
Ms. Einstein spoke four or five languages and earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, including a master's in medieval literature. But she worked as a dogcatcher, a cult deprogrammer and a police officer. After a bitter divorce, she lived in poverty for three months, sleeping in cars and eating discarded food as a self-described "Dumpster diver."
Evelyn Einstein was born in Chicago in 1941 and soon adopted by Hans Albert Einstein, Einstein's son, and his wife, Frieda. For years she said in interviews that she had been told as a child that she was actually the child of Albert Einstein and a ballet dancer, though she acknowledged that she had no proof. Ms. Einstein saw her grandfather infrequently as a child, because he lived in Princeton, N.J., and her family was in California.
During the 1960s and '70s, Ms. Einstein was married for 13 years to Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University. When their marriage broke up, she moved in with her father, but he soon died. A period of homelessness followed, ending when she got a job as a store clerk and moved in with three women in Berkeley.
Ms. Einstein left no immediate survivors.
- New York Times
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Evelyn Einstein Dies at 70; Shaped by a Link to Fame
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Evelyn Einstein, whose tumultuous life as the granddaughter of Albert Einstein was both defined and limited by her distinguished lineage, died on Wednesday at her home in Albany, Calif. She was 70.
Her friend Allen P. Wilkinson, who said he had begun to work with her on her memoirs in recent weeks, confirmed the death. He said she had been treated for heart and lung disease and diabetes.
"She thought Albert was not just a great scientist," Mr. Wilkinson said. "To her, he was Grampa."
Ms. Einstein spoke four or five languages and earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, including a master's in medieval literature. But she worked as a dogcatcher, a cult deprogrammer and a police officer. After a bitter divorce, she lived in poverty for three months, sleeping in cars and eating discarded food as a self-described "Dumpster diver."
Evelyn Einstein was born in Chicago in 1941 and soon adopted by Hans Albert Einstein, Einstein's son, and his wife, Frieda. For years she said in interviews that she had been told as a child that she was actually the child of Albert Einstein and a ballet dancer, though she acknowledged that she had no proof. Ms. Einstein saw her grandfather infrequently as a child, because he lived in Princeton, N.J., and her family was in California.
During the 1960s and '70s, Ms. Einstein was married for 13 years to Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University. When their marriage broke up, she moved in with her father, but he soon died. A period of homelessness followed, ending when she got a job as a store clerk and moved in with three women in Berkeley.
Ms. Einstein left no immediate survivors.
- New York Times
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Evelyn Einstein Dies at 70; Shaped by a Link to Fame
By DOUGLAS MARTIN
Evelyn Einstein, whose tumultuous life as the granddaughter of Albert Einstein was both defined and limited by her distinguished lineage, died on Wednesday at her home in Albany, Calif. She was 70.
Her friend Allen P. Wilkinson, who said he had begun to work with her on her memoirs in recent weeks, confirmed the death. He said she had been treated for heart and lung disease and diabetes.
"She thought Albert was not just a great scientist," Mr. Wilkinson said. "To her, he was Grampa."
Ms. Einstein spoke four or five languages and earned degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, including a master's in medieval literature. But she worked as a dogcatcher, a cult deprogrammer and a police officer. After a bitter divorce, she lived in poverty for three months, sleeping in cars and eating discarded food as a self-described "Dumpster diver."
Evelyn Einstein was born in Chicago in 1941 and soon adopted by Hans Albert Einstein, Einstein's son, and his wife, Frieda. For years she said in interviews that she had been told as a child that she was actually the child of Albert Einstein and a ballet dancer, though she acknowledged that she had no proof. Ms. Einstein saw her grandfather infrequently as a child, because he lived in Princeton, N.J., and her family was in California.
During the 1960s and '70s, Ms. Einstein was married for 13 years to Grover Krantz, an anthropology professor at Washington State University. When their marriage broke up, she moved in with her father, but he soon died. A period of homelessness followed, ending when she got a job as a store clerk and moved in with three women in Berkeley.
Ms. Einstein left no immediate survivors.
- New York Times
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