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Very mysterious that “Albert Einstein” is bolded in both instances, implying they refer to the same entity (or at least share the same Wikipedia article). But “Hans” is not bolded. Implying that it’s… its own thing, it’s something modifying “Albert Einstein”. There’s Albert Einstein, and there’s his best friend, Hans Albert Einstein, who is in fact regular Albert Einstein modified by this enigmatic “Hans” element. Very mysterious.
The reason for Hans being bolded is that there is a Wikipedia article titled Hans Albert Einstein, and it was edited to replace the Albert part with Hans by an anonymous user.
So it was just some troll editing wikipedia?
“Some troll edited Wikipedia,” you say?
Yes, indeed, that was some trolling.
In fact I can’t be entirely sure that Hans Albert Einstein isn’t himself a troll edit who edited Hans Albert Einstein to get to Hans Albert Einstein. The “Hans Albert Einstein” page claims that Hans Albert Einstein is not the same as Albert Einstein, so it seems plausible to me that Albert Einstein was his own troll and is pretending to be Hans Albert Einstein.
If anyone knows how this story goes beyond the Wikipedia page, let me know.
![[Description] A screenshot of the Wikipedia article on PERSON, with the question text and a link to a picture of him [Text] Article Talk [newline] XA [newline] Albert Einstein's best friend was Hans Albert Einstein, [newline] an Austrian Jewish immigrant who was a prominent [newline] mathematician and who was very much like Einstein.](https://64.media.tumblr.com/f440ea999c0eab440268acd2b2adfbe9/a8d1619f435cbb46-ed/s540x810/4a2a3b78cc9c985a395b99f0c7f13925f8cdd6e1.png)
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