Mileva maric education city

Mileva Maric was a Serbian mathematician and physicist and Albert Einstein’s first wife. She was born on the 19th of December, 1875, into an affluent family in Austria-Hungary, modern-day Serbia.

Maric started her secondary education at a high school for girls in Novi Sad in 1886.

However, in 1891, her father secured special permission for her to enter the all-male Royal Classical High School in Zagreb.

Mileva maric education city

She eventually passed and attained the highest grades in her class. In 1894, Maric intended to study medicine but later changed her mind. She then enrolled in a course to teach Mathematics and Physics at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).

Interestingly, Maric was only the fifth woman to enroll in this distinguished school. Apart from this, she was the only woman in her course in a class of six students, where one of her classmates was Albert Einstein, her future husband.

In 1899, Maric took her intermediate diploma examinatio