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ABOUT OR TO HIS FIRST WIFE, MILEVA MARI´C
According to Einstein, though his marriage to Mileva, a Serbian woman, lasted for seventeen years, he never really knew her. He recalled that he had married her primarily "from a sense of duty," possibly because she had given birth to their illegitimate child. "I had, with an inner resistance, embarked on something that simply exceeded my strength. " They had met at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute, where both were physics students; he was eighteen and she was twenty-two. At the time of their marriage about five years later, he was not aware that mental illness was hereditary on Mileva's mother's side of the family. Mileva herself was often depressed and her sister, Zorka, was schizophrenic.