Daniel Einstein of Fellheim
Father of Leopold/Jehuda. Bergmann explicitly reports Daniel in a 1722 Fellheim population list and Daniel's wife as a widow in a 1747 list; death before 1747 is an inference. The two original entries have not been verified.
- Record ID
- P-001
- Name variants
- —
- Birth
- Unknown
- Death
- before 1747
- Family lines
- Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein
- Related people
- Leopold/Jehuda Einstein
- Places
- —
- Sources
- Leopold/Jehuda Einstein gravestone edition and family notes, John H. Bergmann Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein chapter and genealogy, Bad Buchau mit Kappel - Jewish life in southwestern Germany, Association of the Jewish Museum of Hohenems newsletter discussion of early Buchau Jewish families and Einstein ancestry, Fellheim Jewish list attached to Memmingen Secret Council protocol, 22 April 1747
Evidence-backed claims
Leopold’s Hebrew gravestone names his father Daniel; Bergmann independently places the family in Fellheim.
Bergmann explicitly reports a 1722 Fellheim population-list appearance for Daniel and a 1747 population-list description of Daniel's wife as a widow. Daniel's death before 1747 is an inference from the reported widow status, not wording verified in the original record. Archive staff now report a Daniel Einstein widow entry in A 401/7 (S-138); this supports the archival locator, but the uninspected report does not promote this claim.
Bergmann documented unsuccessful attempts to connect the Swabian branches. The 2026 Augsburg archive search did not recover Daniel Einstein's underlying 1722/1747 originals or identify his father. Independent Buchau evidence now establishes an early Baruch Moses Ainstein household and supports an early Moises line, making Baruch a testable candidate common ancestor, but no source-backed Daniel-to-Baruch parent-child link has been found. Repeated derivative pedigrees asserting that link are leads, not documentary proof.