When Robert Michael Bauer was born on 1 February 1938, in Louisiana, United States, his father, Frank George Bauer Jr., was 41 and his mother, Esther Louise Martinolich, was 36. He lived in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States in 1940. He died on 6 February 1960, in Louisiana, United States, at the age of 22, and was buried in New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, United States.
Some characteristic forenames: German Kurt, Hans, Otto, Erwin, Fritz, Helmut, Heinz, Manfred, Franz, Gerhard, Johannes, Wolfgang.
German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): status name for a peasant or nickname meaning ‘neighbor, fellow citizen’, from Middle High German (ge)būr, Middle Low German būr, denoting an occupant of a būr, a small dwelling or building. This word later fell together with Middle High German būwære, an agent noun from Old High German būwan ‘to cultivate’, later also (at first in Low German dialects) ‘to build’. The precise meaning of the Jewish surname, which is of later formation, is unclear. This surname is also found in France (Alsace and Lorraine), the Netherlands, Denmark, Hungary, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Croatia, and Slovenia, often as a translation into German of corresponding Slavic status names or surnames.
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