Six years later, Charles Dirac had acquired a sheaf of complimentary references. English was one language that he did not speak well, so it is not clear why he chose to live in Britain perhaps it was because it was the world's wealthiest economy, with plenty of teaching jobs at relatively high salaries. 2 He became an itinerant teacher of modern languages – the subject he had studied at university – and held posts in Zurich, Munich and Paris, before he fetched up two years later in London.

By the time Charles Dirac was twenty, in 1888, he had done three stints of national service in the Swiss army, dropped out of university in Geneva and left home, without telling his family where he was heading. 1ĭirac knew that his father had endured a childhood no less miserable than his own. Dirac examined them from time to time and talked with distant relatives about his father's origins, apparently still trying to understand the man he believed had blighted his life. But most of Dirac's acquaintances knew nothing of this: at home, he allowed no photographs of his father to be displayed, and he kept his father's papers locked in his desk. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Preface to Getting Married, 1908Īs Kurt Hofer had seen, the elderly Paul Dirac was fixated on his father Charles. It is in many respects conspicuously the reverse. English home life to-day is neither honorable, virtuous, wholesome, sweet, clean, nor in any creditable way distinctively English.

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