Albert Einstein (1879-1955), one of the great geniuses of physics, grew up in Munich where his father and his uncle had a small electrical plant and engineering works. Einstein's special theory of relativity, first printed in 1905 with the title "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" had its beginnings in an essay Einstein wrote at age sixteen. The special theory is often regarded as the capstone of classical electrodynamic theory.