I recently saw part of a biography on Albert Einstein and it said he had two children by his first wife. Did he have any other offspring and what happened to his sons?
On a sidenote, can you imagine being A. Einstein’s kid- “You got a C on your science exam? Are you sure your my son?”
Also, Where is Einstein buried, or was he buried?
No idea about the OP, but I think Einstein would understand a C on a science test…didn’t he do fairly poorly in grade school? 
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Einstien was considered kinda slow in school. I doubt he would care about grades his kids got.
IIRC Einsten Jr. made a big splash in the hydrology/hydraulics side of engineering:
[url=]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Albert_Einstein
He was a leader in the field. 
Einstein was never buried. He was cremated and his ashes scattered. His brain, however, was preserved, but that’s another story. His first son, Hans Albert, was a professor at UC Berkeley for many years.
Critical1 writes:
> Einstien was considered kinda slow in school. I doubt he would care about
> grades his kids got.
This is at least exaggerated. Here’s the wikipedia article on Einstein:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
There were a few occasions in his childhood when people considered him a little slow, but these were people who didn’t understand him. It may have been his shyness or his rebelliousness that mislead them. In any case, Einstein mostly did pretty well, if rather inconsistently so, in school, college, and grad school. Most people who knew him thought he was pretty smart. Besides his son Hans Albert, he and his first wife has a daughter before they married. She was apparently given away for adoption and nothing is known of what happened to her.
In any case, Einstein was apparently not the sort of person to harass a child about grades. He never considered himself some sort of ultimate genius whose reputation would be besmirched by a less than perfect child. If Hans Albert got harassed about not being as smart as his father, it wouldn’t have been from his parents but from classmates.
A few stray remarks about the three certain offspring, all already mentioned.
[ul]Lieserl Her existance was completely unknown until the letters between Albert and his first wife turned up - in Hans Albert’s family - during the 1980s as part of the research preparing the first volume of the Collected Papers. The editors put quite a bit of effort into trying to establish her fate - not least to prevent someone getting a surprise on publication - but without success. Subsequently, Michele Zackheim did the obvious journalistic project of writing a book about looking for traces of her in the post-civil-war Balkans, concluding that she probably died young. I wasn’t very impressed with her Einstein’s Daughter (Riverhead, 1999), but it’s the most detailed account of there being a lack of information about what happened to her.[/ul]
[ul]Hans Albert Since his parents split when he was about 9, he was mainly brought up by his mother. She - with more than some justification - harboured intense bitterness about the failure of the marriage. This, together with the later pressure about living up to a famous father, coloured his later relationship with his father. They never seem to have been particularly emotionally close, but he did see his father reasonably frequently as an adult. His father’s fame seems to have been almost entirely a burden to him.[/ul]
[ul]Eduard Developed schizophrenia as a young adult and was hospitalised. Thus spent most of his life in asylums in Switzerland. (I believe I’ve pointed out on the Dope before that he may have overlapped at the Burgholzli with Lucia, James Joyce’s daughter.) Due to exile and then old age, Einstein thus never saw him at all during the last few decades of his life. By all accounts, Eduard cut a lonely and isolated figure by that stage.[/ul]
The most thorough, if not necessarily the most reliable, account of the two sons is probably in Highfield and Carter’s The Private Lives of Albert Einstein (Faber, 1993). (Carl Seelig befriended Eduard, but it’s a while since I looked at his 1956 biography and can’t remember how much it talks about him and Hans Albert.)
Then we get into the murky issue of whether there were later illegitimate little Einsteins. While none of the biographers have quite managed to name names, Albert conducted multiple affairs outside his two marriages, particularly during the period in Berlin after he had become famous. Did any of these result in children?
The possibility that’s been most seriously considered is the case of Evelyn Einstein. She was adopted as a child in 1941 by Hans Albert and his wife, even though they already had children of their own, and there was a certain amount of gossip over the years as to whether this was actually an arrangement to care for an illegitimate product of one of the affairs. An unnamed dancer in New York was mentioned by some as the mother. Evelyn was left unsatisfied by her original attempts to trace her birth parents, prior to it being suggested to her that Albert was her father. I get the impression that for whatever reason - and she’s evidently not in the easiest of situations - she is quite attracted to the idea. At some point she agreed to an attempt to extract DNA from the surviving brain samples to try to settle the matter, but that failed to yield a usable sequence. (Nor are there any obvious close relatives that could be used for the comparison; Eduard had no kids and all Hans Albert’s children died without issue.) The remaining evidence doesn’t quite convince me, but she’s at least possibly his daughter. Carolyn Abraham’s rather good book on the wanderings of the brain, Possessing Genius (2001), devotes a chapter to this story.
Going further back, there were cases during his lifetime of people claiming to be his illegitimate offspring. No doubt these were mainly nutters and opportunists, but if Albert thought there was a chance that Lieserl was still alive then these claims must have nagged at him. On at least one occasion he hired a private investigator to check out one such claimant.
As nivlac said, aside from his brain and his eyes, the body was cremated. He had no wish for a public funeral or a burial place that might become an object of pilgrimage.
He died in the early morning of April 18th 1955, with the autopsy taking place in the hospital, then the undertakers (the Mather Funeral Home in Princeton) removing the body in the early afternoon. It was briefly taken to their premises, before being taken to the Ewing Crematorium in Trenton where twelve associates, including Hans Albert, attended a short service; his friend and executor Otto Nathan made a few remarks and recited a passage from the Epilog zu Schiller’s Glocke by Goethe.
The ashes are almost invariably described as being scattered at “an unknown location” or similar, but it’s probable that this was the Delaware River.