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    Updated: 2004-04-27 01:00

    Diary details Einstein's last years

    女友日記新近發現 再現愛因斯坦晚年歲月

    In the last years of Albert Einstein's life, he amused himself by telling jokes to his parrot, and avoided visitors by feigning illness, according to a newly discovered diary written by the woman as his last girlfriend.

    While Einstein also talked about the travails of his continuing work in physics, most of Johanna Fantova's diary recalls his views on world politics and his personal life.

    "The writings are an unvarnished portrait of Einstein struggling bravely with the manifold inconveniences of sickness and old age," said Freeman Dyson, a mathematician at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

    The 62-page diary, written in German, was discovered in February in Fantova's personnel files at Princeton University's Firestone Library, where she had worked as a curator. The manuscript is the subject of an article to be published next month in The Princeton University Library Journal.

    According to the article, the new manuscript is the only one kept by someone close to Einstein in the final years of his life.

    Fantova wrote that she recorded her time with the renowned physicist to "cast some additional light on our understanding of Einstein, not on the great man who became a legend in his lifetime, not on Einstein the renowned scientist, but on Einstein the humanitarian."

    Fantova was 22 years younger than Einstein. Although the two spent considerable time together starting in the 1940s, her journal only records their relationship from October 1953 until his death in April 1955 at age 76. She died in 1981 at age 80.

    The diary also recounts how, on his 75th birthday, Einstein received a parrot as gift. After deciding the bird was depressed, Einstein tried alter its mood by telling bad jokes.

    At times, Einstein would pretend to be sick in bed so he would not have to pose with visitors who wanted photographs. Einstein still enjoyed himself even when real illness did take hold.

    Einstein also wrote Fantova poems, some of which are in the diary.

    Einstein, with his second wife Elsa, had arrived in Princeton in 1933 at the newly formed Institute for Advanced Study. Elsa died three years later.

    Fantova first met Einstein in 1929 in Berlin. She arrived in the United States alone in 1939 and, at Einstein's urging, attended library school at the University of North Carolina.

    (Agencies)

    愛因斯坦最后一位女友所寫的日記最近被發現,其中披露了愛因斯坦晚年的生活,他給鸚鵡講笑話來逗自己開心,還假裝生病閉門謝客。

    盡管愛因斯坦也談論他長期從事物理研究工作的辛苦,在女友喬安娜·范多娃的日記中,大部分內容都是回憶愛因斯坦對于世界政治和個人生活的看法。

    美國普林斯頓大學高級研究院的數學家福里曼·戴森說:“這本日記真實地再現了愛因斯坦與疾病和年邁等諸多不便頑強抗爭的情景。”

    2月,在普林斯頓大學火石圖書館中收藏的喬安娜·范多娃個人檔案中發現了這本長達62頁、用德語書寫的日記。喬安娜·范多娃曾擔任該圖書館的館長。在下月即將出版的《普林斯頓大學圖書館雜志》中,有一篇文章的主題就是這篇手稿。

    據這篇文章說,這部新發現的手稿是唯一一部由愛因斯坦晚年身邊最親近的人保留的手稿。

    喬安娜·范多娃寫道,她記錄與這位著名物理學家一起度過的時光是“為了讓人們對愛因斯坦有新的認識,不是紀錄一位偉人的傳奇一生,也沒有把他看作一名世界聞名的科學家,而是一個人道主義者。”

    喬安娜·范多娃比愛因斯坦小22歲。盡管從20世紀40年代開始,他們倆就經常在一起,但是她的日記只是記錄了從1953年10月到1955年愛因斯坦76歲去世的這一段時間。喬安娜·范多娃于1981年去世,享年80歲。

    日記還記錄了愛因斯坦75歲生日時是如何收到了他的生日禮物——一只鸚鵡。在他感到鸚鵡心情沮喪之后,愛因斯坦試圖通過講絕妙的笑話來改變它的情緒。

    愛因斯坦經常會假裝臥病在床,這樣他就不必擺姿勢與訪客拍照周旋。即使真的生病了,愛因斯坦仍然自得其樂。

    愛因斯坦還給喬安娜·范多娃寫詩,其中的一些保存在日記中。

    愛因斯坦和他的第二任妻子埃爾莎于1933年來到新成立的普林斯頓高級研究院的。三年后埃爾莎去世。

    喬安娜·范多娃和愛因斯坦1929年在柏林相識。1939年,她只身來到美國,并在愛因斯坦的強烈要求下,進入北卡羅萊納大學的圖書館學院學習。

    feign: 假裝
    travail: 辛苦
    unvarnished: 原樣的、質樸的
    manifold: 多方面的
    curator: 館長
    manuscript: 手稿、原稿

    (中國日報網站譯)

     
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