Erwin Finlay-Freundlich

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich
Born(1885-05-29)29 May 1885
Biebrich, Hesse, Germany
Died24 July 1964(1964-07-24) (aged 79)
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
Alma mater
Spouse
Kate Hirschberg
(m. 1913)
Scientific career
FieldsAstronomy
Institutions
ThesisAnalytische Funktionen mit beliebig vorgeschriebenem unendlich-blättrigem Existenzbereiche (1910)
Doctoral advisor
Einstein Tower in Potsdam

Erwin Finlay-Freundlich FRSE FRAS (German: [ˈfʀɔɪntlɪç]; 29 May 1885 – 24 July 1964) was a German astronomer, a pupil of Felix Klein. Freundlich was a working associate of Albert Einstein and introduced experiments for which the general theory of relativity could be tested by astronomical observations based on the gravitational redshift.