Goudsmit & Goldschmidt -- a geneasequel - Person Sheet
NameElias b’ Samuel Stein (Cohen)
Birth1742, D, Steinbokkenheim Frankfort
Death18 Sep 1812, s-Gravenhage
Memoage 70 -- act 1040
OccupationSchaakspeler (1779), “Rentier” (1812)
Spouses
Birthabt 1745, s-Gravenhage?
Deathbef 1812, s-Gravenhage?
Notes for Elias b’ Samuel Stein (Cohen)
son of Samuel Steyn & Mathilda Josiel Polak
1812 living in s-Gravenhage, sexion K414
Notifiers of his death are both his cousins Hartogh Benoit de Graaf (age 40, negociant) and Nathan Saul Cerff (age 27, negociant) -- cf
Famous Chess Master
[NB: birth-data published elsewhere don’t match well] He recommended the
Dutch Defence as the best reply to 1.d4 in his book
Nouvel essai sur le jeu des échecs, avec des réflexions militaires relatives à ce jeu (1789). He was Chess-teacher of the children of Stadhouder Prince William V, amongst them the later king William I.