When Hans Jakob Baumann was born in 1817, his father, Joseph Baumann, was 27 and his mother, Salomea Bühler, was 28. He died on 27 June 1819, in St. Peterzell, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland, at the age of 2, and was buried in St. Peterzell, Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
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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 .
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