Why do geniuses like Beethoven , Handel , Haydn , Brahms , Tchaikovsky, Samuel Barber , Newton choose not to have offspring?
In addition to many other good answers, I have other reasons for choosing not to get married, including upbringing; expectations or responsibility; education or occupation; religion; and personal choice.
Sir Isaac Newton is, despite the generations of people, it is reported that Newton is not interested in marriage except for speculating that he is homosexual or asexual. On the contrary, he devoted his life to the "higher cause" of science.
from Dr. Alejando Jenkins, and his answer to why Isaac Newton is not married?
First let me point out that in Newton's time, unmarried was very unusual for a scholar. In fact, the regulations of Oxford University and Cambridge University in the UK require students, college students and tutors to be unmarried. This is the inheritance of the medieval Catholic university system in which the members of the university are pastors who vow to be single and live together as a quasi-monatic community.
Although the Protestant Reformation abolished the requirement of Christian pastors to remain celibate, married life is still considered inconsistent with the public life of the university for study and expectations. Therefore, a graduate can be appointed as an archivist, married, and assigned to a parish, but then he leaves the university.
Renaissance and other most outstanding European scientists in the early modern era, such as Leonardo da Vinci , Nicholas Copernicus , Colico Galileo, Christian Huygens , Gottfried Leibniz and Robert Hooker , were never married. However, some of them have active sexual behavior: Galileo has three children with his long-term mistress, while Hook has a secret relationship with his much younger niece.
Newton moved to London and resigned from his position as a professor at Cambridge at the age of 60 (60). His marriage was natural and socially skillful. There are signs that Newton's friends John Locke and Samuel Pepis may have tried to introduce Newton to a suitable future wife (perhaps a respected widow), but Newton's reaction was very negative.
In a famous letter, Newton recalled that he was very upset about the feeling that Locke "trying to get me involved in women."
Newton's private work shows that he believes that strict celibacy is part of a freely chosen ascetic lifestyle, which he believes is well suited for his profession as a scholar. Some Newton's 20th-century biographers believed that he might have a homosexual tendency, but there is no real evidence to prove this at the moment.
The most important expert professor in studying Newton’s private manuscripts today. Robert Eliff (who is also the director of the Newton project) of the University of Sussex found that Newton deliberately restrained his sexual impulses throughout his life, all targeting women.
There is another factor in consideration, namely mental health and disability - a factor that is usually mainly affecting whether a "genius" gets married and has children. In Newton's case, he was highly suspected to have autism and Asperger's syndrome , a neurodevelopmental and social disability that profoundly affects every aspect of a person's life.
Likewise, I will explain further that Albert Einstein's second son was diagnosed with schizophrenia at a very young age, which also requires continuous treatment. Take Lord Byron as an example, his family also has a history of physical and mental health problems; Thomas Edison and Charles Darwin both agreed to get married on the condition that their wives should also become their caregivers.
A more than 30-year study conducted by Dr. Simon Barron-Cohen of the University of Cambridge shows that autism and mental illnesses in general are not only highly hereditary, but also have a high incidence rate in some families. Even if a "genius" has never been married or has no children, the family still passes the same or similar genes through the marriage of siblings, nieces and nephews—and therefore, the "genius gene."
Edison A child has his own child: his daughter Madeleine . She married Mr. Sloan and had four sons: Tom, John, Peter, Michael. Now there are 7 great-grandchildren and 9 great-great-grandchildren, all with the surname Sloan.
Elbert Einstein's three children come from his relationship with his first wife, Miliva Marik, whose daughter Lizel was born the year before they got married. Einstein and his second wife Elsa Einstein, whose mother is cousin and their father is cousin, which means they "married in the family."
Einstein's first son Hans Einstein is a professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley; he has been widely recognized for his research on sediment transportation; and has won many awards. In 1927, Hans Albert Einstein married Frida Knecht and had four children:
Frida Einstein died in 1958, and Hans Einstein later married neurochemist Elizabeth Roberts (1904-1995). In 1954, Hans's son Bernard Einstein married Doris Odd Asher (born about 1938) and had five children, all of whom were still alive.
However, Albert Einstein's second son, , Edward Einstein, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent most of his life caring for his mother Mileva until his death in 1948. Edward has lived most of his life in a psychiatric clinic in Zurich , and he died of a stroke in 1965 at the age of 55.
Like Charles Darwin, like Charles Darwin, chose to marry his cousin Emma Wedgewood. Darwin The couple has 10 children, but two of them died in infancy, and the death of their daughter Anne Darwin at the age of 10 had a devastating impact on her parents. Charles is a loyal father who cares very much about his children.
Among his surviving children, George, Francis and Horas became members of Royal Society , namely astronomer, botanist and civil engineer . All three were named knights. His other son, Leonard, later became a military man, politician, economist, and a mentor to statistician and evolutionary biologist, Ronald Fisher. The Darwins were also born in the famous Darwin Wedgewood family, which is famous for fostering smart and intelligent people. However, Darwin himself is also arguing about whether to get married: however, his prospective wife Emma eventually won his support
