Talk:Alfred Einstein

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Relationship with Albert[edit]

Was he a cousin of Albert Einstein? I asked about this in rec.music.classical and was told 'by someone I thought of as reliable' (right, right... sigh!!) that while they knew each other, they didn't know if they were related... Schissel 04:24, Nov 29, 2004 (UTC)

Yes, absolutely. New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol 6 p 86, "He was a cousin of the scientist Albert Einstein." Extensive, well-researched article by Alec Hyatt King. It doesn't say whether it was through Albert's mother or father though. Antandrus 04:36, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Ack. Conflict. Now I look him up in Slonimsky (Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Music and Musicians) and it says, "although he was friendly with Albert Einstein, the two were not related: a search through the genealogies of both revealed no common ancestor." Grove is rarely wrong, but it has occurred. I guess I'll have to put the conflict in the article ... Antandrus 04:37, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A website alleging they were cousins places their common ancestor Moyses Einstein some seven generations back... which would be on the one hand sufficient to accurately claim they were cousins, and on the other hand makes them sufficiently distantly related that simply stating they were "cousins" is a bit misleading. - Nunh-huh 04:55, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Interesting. Thanks for looking for that. Now to figure out how to put this in the article ... Antandrus 05:01, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

The greatest living critic a review by Allen Barra of Clive James' Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories From History and the Arts contains the phrase "Alfred Einstein makes the list but not his brother Albert". I do not know if Clive James asserts that they were brothers, or whether this is Barra's notion, but... Pete.Hurd 05:57, 9 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I remember reading someplace that his wife, when asked about a relationship when he was at Princeton, answered they were cousins, without any particular knowledge of their families' histories. Later, the daughter said her mother was just being companionable. I don't know remember where I read that, and I can't seem to track it down now.Agarvin (talk) 23:49, 11 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Geneological science suggests that all Ashkenazik Jews are at most sixth cousins MKleid 14:19, 29 Jul 2022 (UTC)

Ethnicity[edit]

The info box says: Ethnicity = Ashkenazi Jewish. But that is a religion. So it should either be changed to religion (which is probably inappropriate in an infobox) or nationality. -- kosboot (talk) 07:23, 12 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's written that he was german-american, but he actually was naturalized american. BellaIncognitaBorghese (talk) 13:55, 18 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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