DOCUMENT 500 JANUARY 1914 589 gen nicht zugänglich, Planck auch nicht, eher Sommerfeld.[13] Der freie, un- befangene Blick ist dem (erwachsenen) Deutschen überhaupt nicht eigen (Scheuleder!).[14] Ich lerne englisch (bei Wohlwend), langsam aber gründ- lich.[15] Herzliche Grüsse, auch an Vero und Anna von Deinem Albert. [. . .][16] ALS (SzGB). Einstein/Besso 1972, 9 (E. 7). [7 261]. [1]Dated by the reference to Abraham's paper, which was published 1 January. [2]Probably the sheaf of calculations on which Besso and Einstein had worked the previous summer (Vol. 4, Doc. 14). See also Vol. 4, the editorial note, "The Einstein-Besso Manuscript on the Motion of the Perihelion of Mercury." [3]The proof was published in Einstein 1914c (Vol. 4, Doc. 24) and Einstein 1914e (Vol. 4, Doc. 25). [4]Einstein's election to the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin had been confirmed in mid-November (see Doc. 485) and accepted on 7 December (see Doc. 493). An announcement of his election and the royal confirmation appeared in the first days of 1914 (see Vossische Zei- tung [2 January 1914], no. 2, 2. Beilage, p. [2]). [5]Rosa Bandi-Winteler see the following document where plans for opening a boarding- house are mentioned. [6]See Doc. 491. [7]See Stark 1913 for the first publication of the Stark effect. [8]Görz, Austria (now Gorizia, Italy) where Besso was working for textile and insurance firms (see Vol. 1, Biography, p. 379). [9]Max Abraham. [10]Abraham 1914a. [11]H. A. Lorentz, whom Einstein intended to visit en route to Berlin (see Docs. 512 and 513). [12]paul Langevin had published a review of special relativity two years earlier in the jour- nal Scientia (see Langevin, P. 1911). [13]Max von Laue Max Planck Arnold Sommerfeld. See Doc. 407, note 3, for more on Laue's objections Planck's disapproval is also mentioned in Doc. 495. [14]Swiss German for "Scheuklappe." [15]Hans Wohlwend resided at Bahnhofstrasse 56 in Zurich (see Einwohnerkontrolle, SzZ-Ar). Later Wohlwend recalled that "we tried to pronounce such wonderful sentences as: 'there is a mill on the hill' with a finely rounded 'I' at the end" (see Hans Wohlwend to Ein- stein, 19 May 1946). [16]A postscript by Mileva Einstein-Marid is omitted. 500. To Rosa Bandi-Winteler [Zurich, 7 January 1914] Liebe Rosa! Ich schrieb soeben an Freund Ehrat,[1] er solle Sie gleich besuchen. Sie be- kommen von ihm eine Karte. Er solle in Winterthur bei Ihnen Wohnung neh- men dann würden Sie versuchen, dort eine kleine Pension anzufangen. Ich