Current region | Worldwide |
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Place of origin | Württemberg, Germany |
Members | Albert Einstein, Maja Einstein, Hermann Einstein, Pauline Koch |
Connected families | Koch, Moos, Overnauer, Clews |
Pauline Einstein (née Koch) | |
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Pauline Einstein (née Koch)
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Born |
Cannstatt, Württemberg |
8 February 1858
Died | 20 February 1920 Berlin, Germany |
(aged 62)
Residence | Germany (1858–1895) Italy (1896–1903) Germany (1904–1920) |
Nationality | German |
Spouse(s) | Hermann Einstein |
Children | Albert Einstein and Maja Einstein |
Parent(s) | Julius Derzbacher and Jette Bernheimer |
Hermann Einstein | |
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Hermann Einstein
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Born |
Buchau, Kingdom of Württemberg |
30 August 1847
Died | 10 October 1902 Milan, Kingdom of Italy |
(aged 55)
Citizenship | Germany (1847–1894) Italy (1894–1902) |
Occupation | Scientific utility salesman, Electrician |
Spouse(s) | Pauline Koch |
Children | Albert Einstein and Maja Einstein |
Parent(s) | Abraham Einstein and Helene Moos |
Eduard Einstein | |
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Born |
Zurich, Switzerland |
28 July 1910
Died | 25 October 1965 Psychiatric Clinic Burghölzli, Zurich |
(aged 55)
Cause of death | Stroke |
Resting place | Cemetery Hönggerberg, Zurich |
Residence | Switzerland (1910-1965) |
Nationality | Switzerland |
Other names | "Tete" |
Parent(s) | Albert Einstein and Mileva Marić |
Relatives | Hans Albert Einstein, Lieserl |
Notes | |
"Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don’t read that much but save yourself some until you’re grown up." Albert Einstein in a letter to his son Eduard, June 1918 |
Maria 'Maja' Einstein | |
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Maria 'Maja' Einstein in the 1900s
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Born |
Maria Einstein 18 November 1881 Munich, Germany |
Died | 25 June 1951 Princeton, New Jersey, United States |
(aged 69)
Cause of death | Atherosclerosis |
Residence | Germany (1881–1894) Italy (1894–1902, 1922–1939) Switzerland (1902–1922) United States (1939–1951) |
Nationality | German, Swiss, American |
Occupation | Doctor |
Known for | Albert's well known inventions |
Partner(s) | Paul Winteler |
Children | None |
Parent(s) | Hermann Einstein and Pauline Koch |
Relatives | Albert Einstein |
Notes | |
"Yes, but where does it have its small wheels?" Question by a young Albert Einstein when he first saw his sister in 1881.
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Lieserl Einstein | |
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Born | January 1902 Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Austria-Hungary (present day Republic of Serbia) |
Died | 18 September 1903 |
Cause of death | Scarlet fever |
Resting place | The outskirts of Novi Sad |
Residence | Novi Sad (1902–1903) |
Parent(s) | Mileva Marić and Albert Einstein |
Relatives | Marija Marić née Ružić, Miloš Marić, Pauline Einstein née Koch, Hermann Einstein, Hans Albert Einstein and Eduard Einstein. |
The Einstein family is the family of the renowned physicist Albert Einstein (1879–1955). Einstein's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Jakob Weil, was his oldest recorded relative, born around the turn of the 16th century, and the family continues to this day. Albert Einstein's great-great-grandfather, Löb Moses Sontheimer (1745–1831), was also the grandfather of the prominent tenor Heinrich Sontheim (1820–1912) of Stuttgart.
Albert's three children were from his relationship with his first wife, Mileva Marić, his daughter Lieserl being born a year before they married.
Albert Einstein's second wife was Elsa Einstein, whose mother Fanny Koch was the sister of Albert's mother, and whose father Rudolf Einstein was the son of Raphael Einstein, a brother of Albert's paternal grandfather. Thus Albert and Elsa were first cousins through their mothers and second cousins through their fathers.
Hoyna Moses Sontheimer (1705-?), Gölla [last name unknown] (?)
David Ka Löb Moses Sontheimer (1745-?)
Bernard (Beerle) Weil (1750–1840), Rösle Katz (1760–1826)
Helene Moos (1814–1887, Siblings: None)
Jette Bernheimer (1825–1886, Siblings: None)
Pauline Einstein (née Koch) (8 February 1858 – 20 February 1920) was the mother of the physicist Albert Einstein. She was born in Cannstatt, Württemberg. She was Jewish and had an older sister, Fanny, and two older brothers, Jacob and Caesar. Her parents were Julius Doerzbacher, who had adopted the family name Koch in 1842, and Jette Bernheimer. They were married in 1847. Pauline's father was from Jebenhausen, now part of the city of Göppingen, and grew up in modest economic circumstances. Later, he lived in Cannstatt and together with his brother Heinrich, made a considerable fortune in the corn trade. They even became "Royal Württemberg Purveyor to the Court". Their mother was from Cannstatt and was a quiet and caring person.
At 18 years old, Pauline married the merchant Hermann Einstein who lived in Ulm. They got married in Cannstatt on 8 August 1876. After the marriage, the young couple lived in Ulm, where Hermann became joint partner in a bed feathers company. Their son, Albert was born on 14 March 1879. On the initiative of Hermann's brother Jakob the family moved to Munich in the summer of 1880, where the two brothers together founded an electrical engineering company called Einstein & Cie. The second child of Hermann and Pauline, their daughter Maria (called Maja), was born in Munich on 18 November 1881. Pauline Einstein was a well-educated and quiet woman who had an inclination for the arts. She was a talented and assiduous piano player. She made Albert begin with violin lessons at the age of five.