The Einstein family is the family of the famous scientist Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the theory of general relativity, effecting a revolution in physics. For this achievement, Einstein is often regarded as the father of modern physics and one of the most prolific intellects in human history...

. Einstein's great-great-great-great-grandfather, Jakob Weil, is his oldest recorded relative, born around the turn of the 18th 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

Heinrich Sontheim

Heinrich Sontheim , also known as Honas Bär Sontheimer, was a prominent late-19th-Century tenor and kammersänger based in Stuttgart, Germany.- Personal life :...

 (1820–1912) of Stuttgart.

Albert's three children were from his relationship with his first wife, Mileva Marić

Mileva Maric

Mileva Marić was one of the first women to study mathematics and physics in Europe...

, 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.