Who were Albert Einstein’s parents?

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Portrait of Albert Einstein in a suit and tie, looking slightly to the side with a neutral expression. — Albert Einstein Albert Einstein developed the special and general theory of relativity, which recast gravity as a bending in space-time.

Albert Einstein’s parents were Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch. They were secular, middle-class Jews.1

Hermann Einstein was initially a featherbed salesman before finding moderate success running an electrochemical factory. Pauline Koch managed the family household.1