Fritz Leonhard Redlich (1892–1978) was a German businessman and American economic historian.
He was a pioneer of the history of entrepreneurship and the author of a widely respected study of American banking.
Redlich was born in Berlin and educated in Germany, where he obtained his doctorate in economics in 1914, with a thesis supervised by Ignaz Jastrow.
[1] Middle-aged, he returned to interests in the history of business and entrepreneurship dating from his student days, and sought an academic position.
While teaching at minor colleges in the United States without ever acquiring tenure, he was an early and influential associate member of Harvard University's Research Center in Entrepreneurial History.