Brief Life History of Hans
When Hans Baumann was born on 22 March 1607, in Reitnau, Bern, Switzerland, his father, Jacob Baumann, was 25 and his mother, Anna Reutlinger, was 21. He married Elsbeth Maler on 23 August 1624, in Reitnau, Bern, Switzerland. He died in 1691, in his hometown, at the age of 84.
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- Hans Bauwmann im Eintrag für Elsbeth Bauwmann, „Schweiz, Katholische und Reformiert Kirchenbücher, 1418-1996“
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1648
All European peace treaty formally accepts Switzerland as an independent nation.
Name Meaning
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Erwin, Otto, Gerhard, Ernst, Heinz, Guenter, Armin, Dieter, Erna, Friedrich.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a peasant or a nickname meaning ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, from Middle High German būman, German Baumann ‘peasant’ (see Bauer ). This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, and some other European countries. Compare Bauman and Bowman .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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