The Hands of Albert Einstein: Einstein’s Involvement with Hand Readers and a Dutch Psychic

When the handprints of Albert Einstein sold in 2013 at Sotheby’s for £55,000, no one queried how Einstein might have come to allow the chiromancer Marianne Raschig to read his hands. It is symptomatic of a wider lack of interest in the art of reading hands, which remains underresearched territory. This essay fills such a gap in connection with Einstein, arguing that the art of reading hands (chiromancy, chirology) was popular in the Weimar Republic, and that in addition to Raschig at least three others analysed Einstein’s hands. Pictures of his hands also appeared in magazines, and they were o... Mehr ...