section_path: Personal life
section_name: Personal life
paragraph_text: Personal life
  
  On 7 January 1734, he married Katharina Gsell (1707–1773), daughter of Georg Gsell, a painter from the Academy Gymnasium in Saint Petersburg. The young couple bought a house by the Neva River.
  
  Of their thirteen children, only five survived childhood, three sons and two daughters. Their first son was Johann Albrecht Euler, whose godfather was Christian Goldbach.
  
  Three years after his wife's death in 1773, Euler married her half-sister, Salome Abigail Gsell (1723–1794). This marriage lasted until his death in 1783.
  
  His brother Johann Heinrich settled in St. Petersburg in 1735 and was employed as a painter at the academy.