Einstein's first violin will be auctioned for $405 thousand.

The violin of scientist Albert Einstein will be put up for auction in the UK with an estimated value from £200 to £300 thousand ($270-405 thousand). The announcement on September 6 was published on the website of the Dominic Winter auction house, the auction will be held on October 8.

According to the Daily Mail newspaper, Einstein acquired a musical instrument in Germany in the mid-1890s, shortly before leaving for Switzerland to study at the Zurich Polytechnic School.

"It seems that he played the violin with the name "Lina" engraved on it from adolescence and throughout his adult life, especially when he published his important papers on the theory of relativity in 1905 and 1915," the publication reports.

When the Nazis came to power in the 1930s, Einstein decided to emigrate to the United States. He handed over his belongings to his colleague Max von Lau, a physicist, so that they would not disappear without a trace. Among them was the aforementioned violin, the first one that the scientist personally bought, as well as a bicycle and a book on philosophy given to the young Einstein by his father.

20 years later, von Lau presented these items to the great Einstein fan Margareta Hommrich from Braunschweig. Things have been in her family for over 70 years. Hommrich's great-granddaughter decided to auction them.

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