Selakovic: Serbia has purchased valuable archival material about Mileva Maric Einstein

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Culture Nikola Selakovic said on Friday correspondence between Albert Einstein and his wife Mileva Maric Einstein (1875-1948), recently purchased by the Ministry of Culture at a London auction, represented valuable archival material and would be used to set up a personal archival fund of Maric Einstein, a renowned Serbian mathematician and physicist.

"The value of this material that we have purchased and that is coming to Serbia lies in the fact that it will be our largest volume of material about Mileva herself, about her work and her personality," Selakovic said.

In a statement to Tanjug, Selakovic said that, with comprehensive support from the president and the PM of Serbia and good cooperation with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Culture had purchased 43 autographed letters written by Albert Einstein and ten letters written...