D O C U M E N T S 1 1 5 , 1 1 6 A U G U S T 1 9 2 0 2 4 5
Dear, dear Einstein—please don’t write one more word in reply to these shabby
newspapers—your friends must do that for you—primarily Planck–Lorentz. It suf-
fices for you simply to inform me or Lorentz about any such attack that you would
like to have answered. Then others will take care of it, all right!
With fond greetings also from my wife and
Tanya,[5]
yours,
Ehrenfest.
Can I receive your reply in the Berliner Tageblatt?!
115. From Kurt J. Grau[1]
29 August 1920
Dr. Kurt Joachim Grau feels impelled to express his undivided and sincere sym-
pathy with the great scientist and person, in the face of the disgraceful and self-de-
grading attitude taken by a large segment of the German
nation,[2]
to which ice-
cold, superior silence would be the appropriate
response.[3]
The Jewish people are proud to have an Einstein and count him, alongside
Spinoza and Moses Mendelssohn, among the most important men in their more re-
cent
history.[4]
116. From Moritz Schlick
Rostock, 23 Orléans St., 29 August 1920
Dear, highly esteemed Professor,
Various little motives are to blame for my once again having the pleasure of ad-
dressing a few lines to you. But I will keep it very short so as not to take up too
much of your time.
At the beginning of this month, our local theoretical physicist died: R. H. Weber,
a kindly man, to whom you also were introduced at our home, if I am not
mistaken.[1]
His chair (an extraordinary professorship) now has to be filled again,
and you can imagine that, owing to the close relations that my philosophy has with
physics, I am extremely interested in getting a very capable hand to join us here
who is conversant in modern problems. As a private lecturer, I do not officially have
the least to do with appointment affairs, of course, but this does not exclude my
ability to nevertheless exert a little influence on the commission’s resolutions
through an occasional conversation with the gentlemen in charge, if in doing so I
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