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Original vintage glossy 10 x 8 silver gelatin photograph of members of the International Advisory Board of the University of the Andes meeting in Princeton, New Jersey, in May 1952. The photo, which was ostensibly taken on the back porch of Einstein’s home at 112 Mercer Street, pictures the following: (front row) Dana Munro, Whitney Oates, Albert Einstein, Mario Laserna, Marston Morse, and Solomon Lefschetz; (back row) John von Neumann, Oskar Morgenstern, and Samuel Wilks. An original 7 x 5 negative of the photograph is included. In fine condition.
Albert Einstein was affiliated with the University of the Andes as a member of its early International Advisory Board. He became involved through a friendship with founder Mario Laserna Pinzón, whom he met while Laserna was studying for a master’s degree in philosophy at Princeton, where Einstein was a senior figure at the Institute for Advanced Study, and with whom he exchanged letters on philosophy, education, and the idea of a new university. Laserna formed the advisory board with prominent intellectuals to give the young university intellectual guidance and international credibility.
The University of the Andes was founded on November 16, 1948, by a group of young men under the leadership of Mario Laserna Pinzón. It was the first private higher education institution in Colombia that was non-denominational and independent from traditional political parties, as well as from social or economic power groups.
From the estate of Helen Baum, the niece of revered mathematician Solomon Lefschetz.
