Leopold/Jehuda Einstein
Hebrew gravestone names his father Daniel.
- Record ID
- P-002
- Name variants
- Leibele Einstein, Jehuda Einstein
- Birth
- about 1720
- Death
- 1796
- Family lines
- Fellheim–Laupheim Einstein
- Related people
- Daniel Einstein of Fellheim, Esther Oettinger, Daniel Leopold Einstein, Lazarus/Elieser Einstein, Isak Einstein, Miriam Einstein
- Places
- —
- Sources
- Isak Einstein gravestone edition and family notes, Miriam Einstein gravestone edition and family notes, Leopold/Jehuda Einstein gravestone edition and family notes, Daniel Leopold Einstein scholarly register reconstruction, Lazarus/Elieser 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
Evidence-backed claims
Leopold’s Hebrew gravestone names his father Daniel; Bergmann independently places the family in Fellheim.
Steinheim scholarly register notes reconstruct the relationship and cite Laupheim family registers.
Lazarus’s Hebrew inscription names Jehuda; scholarly notes identify Leopold/Jehuda and Esther.
The two reconstructed parental lines converge on Leopold/Jehuda and Esther.
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.