Does anybody know if this egghead had a middle name!?!
Ladykiller
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I’ve googled up several well-researched online biographies and none of them mentions a middle name. His full official name seems to have been plainly Albert Einstein.
Didn’t have one.
If you really need documentary proof, I believe The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein includes a copy of Einstein’s birth certificate.
The Collected Papers probably do include it, but it’s also translasted in its entiriety by Pais (Subtle is the Lord …, Oxford, 1982, p35):
Couple of typing errors there, of which I’ll correct the one that’s of some significance. His mother’s maiden name was Koch.
Was not having a middle name prevalent among jews at that time? My first instinct is that middle names are a fairly Christian tradition.
I knew a Protestant German with no middle name. She said middle names aren’t as common in Germany as they are in America.
buck
Heezno
I haven’t made any sort of exhaustive study of the subject, but judging from a)the names of famous European Jews of the period and b)my great-grandparents’ names, it seems to have been pretty common either way; many people had only one, many people had multiples. The same is true today.
I always thought it was Freak’n. As in “I’m not Albert Freak’n Einstein ya know!” 
heeheeheehee! 
In general (not just Germany and/or jews), middle names are less common in Europe than in the States.
Danger was his middle name.
That’s a bit to generic a distinction.
There are quite a few European cultures that give their offspring more than one given name, even though these names are rarely given the same significance as in the US.
Speaking for Sweden, they very rarely appear on anything but the most formal of forms (drivers license etc).
In Spain and France it is not uncommon to give a child several given names, although they are rarely used.
And then there’s the eastern european[sub](or is it confined exclusively to Russia?)[/sub] tradition of patronymics to consider as well.
For a more complete discussion, look at the thread Why do we have middle names?.
Well it depends. In some European countries it’s very common to have either two or three names, so many people have two “middle names”, and that may cause some confusion in English-speaking countries.
Jeez…thanks everyone…you guys are a little scary!