Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 to Milutin Tesla who was an Eastern Orthodox priest ,and also his father, and Đuka Tesla who was his mother, his mother's father was also an Orthodox priest which meant religion had a strong presence in his early life, …show more content…
Tesla’s mother is who really got him into inventions because she had a knack for making home crafted tools and mechanical appliances, she also had a photographic memory which all contributed to Nikola’s genius behaviour even as a young child. Nikola was the 4th of 5 children , one of which died when he was 5 , this shows that Nikola was a very family orientated person because he had a reasonably large family. He completed primary school and middle school where he went on to move to far north to Karlovac, in which he attended high school where he learned German because all of the classes were held within a Austria-Hungarian military frontier. Tesla would late write in one of his novels how his physics professor was the real reason why he got into electricity besides finding it utterly fascinating. Nikola wanted to change the world because he believed that he needed to give back to the world because when he was done with schooling he fell terribly ill because during the 1800’s they did not have antibiotics so Tesla was literally in Death’s grasp which caused his father to promise to send him to America in case Nikola lived because he had always wanted to