3 5 0 I N D E X
zur Erhaltung der reinen Wissenschaft, 240,
243, 257
Arco, Georg Count von (1869–1940): 309; re-
quests AE’s opinion on Kammerer 1919,
309; requests court expert opinion from AE
on legal dispute over Meissner’s patent, 308–
309
Aristoteles, on heredity, 57
Arkad’ev, Vladimir (1884–1953), on restoration
of international connections between scien-
tists, 198
Arosa (Canton Grisons): 52, 56, 61, 62, 66, 74,
84, 97, 102; De Sitter in, 304, 321; Eduard
Einstein in, 51, 53, 56–57, 60–64, 82, 84, 87–
88, 112, 115; Fokker in, 178; good for AE’s
health, 85, 103
As If conference: 152, 163, 164, 171, 179, 185,
186; AE cancels participation in, 173, 166,
167; ignorance of relativity at, Petzoldt on,
205; Wertheimer on, 161–162. See also Phi-
losophy; Vaihinger, Hans
Association for Combating Anti-Semitism: 273;
invites AE to join executive board, declines,
273
Aston, Francis (1877–1945), 326, 331
Astronomy: AE urges support for in Germany,
223; daytime photography of stars, 239;
Milky Way, 318–319; stellar velocities, 318.
See also Freundlich, Erwin
Atoms: constitution of, 306; structure of, 188
Austrian Academy, Baumgartner Prize, to AE
and Wander de Haas, 56, 65
Axiomatics, Schlick on Reichenbach’s under-
standing of, 287
Azzolini, Margherita (1881–?), 91, 144
Bachem, Albert (1888–1957): 155, 215, 233,
153; on redshift of solar spectral lines, 209,
228
Bad Nauheim, meeting in. See GDNÄ meeting
in Bad Nauheim
Balzac, Honoré de, 98
Bär, Richard (1892–1940), 184
Barkla, Charles (1877–1944), invited to Solvay
meeting, 189
Baumgartner Prize, 56, 65
Baur au Lac, 61
Bavarian Soviet Republic, 285
Beck, Carl (1864?–?): 344; offers services to AE
for US lecture tour, 345; on Americans’ opin-
ion on Germans, 344; on organizing financial
aid for German and Austrian universities, 344
Beck, Emil (1881–1965), 49
Becker, Carl H. (1876–1933), lectures on prob-
lems of education, AE participates, 273
Becker, Oskar (1889–1964), 162
Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770–1827): 96;
Mondschein Sonata, 84; Sonata pathétique,
85
Bentheim: 152, 156; Ehrenfest’s violin confis-
cated in, 152–153
Benzingen: 73, 78, 79, 80, 81, 130, 131, 204,
213, 216, 226, 233, 264, 280, 281, 286, 290,
291, 293; foot and mouth disease in, 281. See
also Brandhuber, Camillus; Ensingen
Bergmann, Ernst (1881–1945), 162
Bergson, Henri (1859–1941): 231; AE on, 14
Berlin Philharmonic. See Philharmonic Hall,
Berlin
Berlin: advantages of living in for AE, 14; AE
compares with Zurich, 315; AE declares loy-
alty to, 129, 130, 131; AE considers leaving,
265; AE feels close to, 263; AE residences at
Haberlandstrasse, 73, 80; proclamation of the
republic, 114. See also Abbé, F.; Meissners
Berliner, Arnold (1862–1942): 172, 270, 280,
323; on anti-relativists, 240; on publication of
AE’s opinion on Schmidt’s book, 320–321;
proposes new edition of Einstein 1918k, 240;
asks for AE’s opinion on Schneider’s disser-
tation, 239
Bern: 139; conference in, 169; AE’s feeling of
loneliness in, 318; Hilbert received call to
University of, 127. See also Guillaume,
Edouard
Bernays, Paul (1888–1977), 31
Bernheim-Karrer, Jakob (1868–1958), 46, 43
Besso family, 62
Besso, Michele (1873–1955): 21, 22, 24, 25, 26,
28, 29, 34, 37, 40, 41, 42, 44, 46, 48, 49, 50,
51, 60, 70, 75, 82, 83, 86, 98, 99, 100, 105,
108, 111, 117, 213, 215, 241, 325; as good
friend of AE, 25; lectures on patent law at
ETH, 116; on AE’s inaugural lecture as a ges-
ture towards Lorentz, 340; on Eduard Ein-
stein’s illness, 62; on himself as AE’s
sounding board, 340; AE on character of, 24,
70–71; on past and present, 109–110; knows
AE’s way of thinking, 241; on redshift, 341;
on reversibility and irreversibility of time,