Background
She was born in Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland) in 1898 to a neurologist, Carl Freund.
She was born in Breslau, Germany (now part of Poland) in 1898 to a neurologist, Carl Freund.
Elisabeth Freund studied at universities in Breslau, Würzburg, and Berlin.
Freund developed learning curricula for the blind and founded a Touch and Learn Center at the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia in the mid-20th century. She began working for the Overbrook School for the Blind in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania run by Julius Friedlaender, the brother of her great-uncle. Freund developed a Touch and Learn Center at the Overbrook School for the Blind that was a model for other blind centers internationally.
She died in 1982.
