Albert Einstein was raised in a secular Jewish family and had one sister, Maja, who was two years younger than him. In 1903 Einstein married Mileva MariÄ, a Serbian physics student whom he had met at school in ZĆ¼rich. They had three children: a daughter named Lieserl and two sons named Hans and Eduard. After a period of unrest, Einstein and MariÄ divorced in 1919. Einstein, during his marriage, had begun an affair with his cousin Elsa Lƶwenthal. They were married in 1919, the same year he divorced MariÄ.
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