The first violin Albert Einstein bought for himself which he hid from the Nazis has today sold for nearly £1.1million. The genius mathematician acquired the instrument shortly before leaving Munich to move to Switzerland for his studies in the mid 1890s. He played the violin, which he engraved 'Lina', throughout his late teens and into his adult life as he developed his groundbreaking theory of relativity. Einstein gifted the 1894 Anton Zunterer violin to his good friend and physicist colleague Max von Laue in late 1932. He was about to flee Germany for America to escape Nazi persecution due to...
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