Einstein Correspondence Sets Record

Einstein Portal will be available soon

Albert Einstein’s correspondence with mathematician Chaim Herman Müntz has sold at auction for SEK 1,175,000 ($126,000) at Stockholms Auktionsverk‘s Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts Sale.

The Einstein letters were offered across seven lots and provide an insight into the development of field theory and shed light on Chaim Herman Müntz’s central role in Einstein’s mathematical reasoning during the years following 1927.

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: Einstein Portal A Database of Albert Einstein’s Collected Works

The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein (CPAE) is a scholarly, annotated, print and electronic edition of the writings and correspondence of Albert Einstein (1879-1955). Selected from among 80,000 documents, the edition aims at making widely available, for the first time, complete and authoritative access to a massive written legacy that documents the most important developments in 20th century science and technology in the context of profound social and political transformations. Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The Einstein Portal launches with 16 volumes in both the original German and in English translation, spanning nearly 18,000 pages and covering Einstein’s life and work through 1930.

As the database evolves, annual updates will deliver Einstein’s writings, public statements, and correspondence up to his death in 1955. These volumes draw on Einstein’s writings and correspondence from the Albert Einstein Archives at Hebrew University, along with over 40,000 additional documents uncovered by researchers since the 1980s.

This ambitious database will eventually include over 30 volumes of Einstein’s writing and correspondence curated by the editors at the Einstein Papers Project, and additional scholarship from Princeton University Press.