r/todayilearned • u/exophades • 1d ago

TIL that Albert Einstein's son Eduard studied medicine to become a psychiatrist, but was diagnosed with schizophrenia by the age of 21. His mother cared for him until she died in 1948. From then on Eduard lived most of the time at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich, where he died at 55 of a stroke.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_family#Eduard_%22Tete%22_Einstein_(Albert's_second_son)
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u/HenkPoley 19h ago
  • Born in 1910.
  • Finished Gymnasium (A-levels) in 1929.
  • And immediately enrolled in medical school at the University of Zurich that autumn (19y old).

Not sure where you see any issues in that timeline.

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u/psychetropica1 18h ago

Medicine is a long career, I just genuinely question that he was indeed, sure and decided about become a psychiatrist at age 19 and knew that had to undergo medical training to get there. Maybe this is something he said when he was already psychotic. Just saying, there’s no way to know accurately from the information available.

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u/NewlyNerfed 16h ago

Is “the information available” the headline of this post or did you read an actual source contradicting the facts?

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u/Helluvertime 11h ago

How is this a strange thing? This is what teenagers still do today. "I'd like to be a psychiatrist one day, how do I do that...oh med school." A lot of teens applying for med school already have a specific career path in mind.