Baumgarten (surname) explained
Baumgarten is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname, likely indicating an ancestral lineage from a man who owned, lived or worked in an orchard; from Baum, meaning tree, and Garte(n) meaning enclosure (garden).[1]
Notable people with the surname include:
- Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714 - 1762), German philosopher
- Alfred Baumgarten (1842 - 1919), Canadian chemist and businessman of German descent
- Armin Baumgarten (born 1967), German painter and sculptor
- Bodo Baumgarten (born 1940) German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and educator.
- Charles Frederick Baumgarten (1739 - 1840), German-born violinist and organist in London
- Fritz Baumgarten (1886 - 1961), German footballer
- Hans Heinrich Baumgarten (1806 – 1875) Holstein-Danish industrialist
- Hermann Baumgarten (1825 - 1893), German historian and political publicist
- Konrad Baumgarten, hero of the Swiss liberation legend, character in the drama William Tell
- Joseph M. Baumgarten (1928 - 2008), rabbi and Semitic scholar
- Lothar Baumgarten (1944 - 2018), German artist
- Ludwig Friedrich Otto Baumgarten-Crusius (1788 - 1843), German Protestant theologian
- Martin Baumgarten (1507–?), German explorer
- Michael Baumgarten (1812 - 1889), German Protestant theologian
- Paul Clemens von Baumgarten (1848 - 1928), German pathologist
- Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten (1706 - 1757), German theologian
- Vasily Baumgarten (1879 - 1962), Russian and Yugoslavian architect
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Last name BAUMGARTEN: origin and meaning . 2024-06-21 . Geneanet . en.
