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In addition to mistiming Einstein, I have never heard Mozart described as an intellectual.

Newton was infamously provincial; even when forced out of Cambridge he just went back to his childhood home (this is also one reason Leibniz's approach dominated continental mathematics). Probably the exception that proves the rule.

Einstein was not enlightenment intellectual. He lived well after that period and was more of physicist. He did travel from Germany to united states, through not for fun.

If I remember correctly, Immanuel Kant never got very far from East Prussia.

I agree. The article smells of confirmation bias.

I disagree with you. One of the unusual, perhaps unique features of Western civilization is the great hunger for direct knowledge of other societies and other parts of the natural world outside the West. Think for instance of Herodotus.