Birnbaum
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The name Birnbaum can mean:
- a tree that bears the pear. (Birne in German means pear, baum means tree.)
- Birnbaum an der Warthe is a city in Posen district, Poland, today Międzychód
- a city in the Franconian Forest, see Birnbaum (Franconian Forest)
- the name of a city in Lesach, see Birnbaum (Lesach)
- a district of Gummersbach in Oberbergischer Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia, see Birnbaum (Gummersbach)
- Kreis Birnbaum in the Posen district, today Międzychód
The word can also refer to:
- a novel by Theodor Fontane called Unterm Birnbaum (Under the Pear Tree)
- Birnbaumer Wald, an elevated plain on the edge of the Alps in Slovenia
- a company that manufactures bakery technology, see Birnbaum Brotformenfabrik & Bäckereitechnik
- a carpentry company, see Schweizer Birnbaum
- Unter-Birnbaum, the German name of a Slovenian city, see Dolenja Hrušica
[edit] Last names
Birnbaum (birnboym) is an German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname that can refer to:
- Alfred Birnbaum
- Allan Birnbaum
- Brigitte Birnbaum (b. 1938), German female writer and child- and youth's-book-writer; (de)
- Dara Birnbaum
- Eduard Birnbaum, cantor ([1])
- Ferdinand Birnbaum (1892-1947), Austrian educator and psychologist; (de)
- Heinrich Birnbaum ([2])
- Heinrich Birnbaum, painter
- Jeremiah Birnbaum
- Johann Birnbaum (1763-1832), Palatinate jurist; (de)
- Karl Birnbaum (1878-1950), German neurologist
- Lillian Birnbaum, photographer
- Mark Birnbaum
- Menachem Birnbaum, see German article
- Nathan Birnbaum, Jewish philosopher
- Norman Birnbaum (born 1926), US sociologist
- Paula Birnbaum (b. 1986), German actress; (de)
- Roger Birnbaum, film director
- Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum.
- Uriel Birnbaum, see German article
- Paltiel (Philip) Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
- Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, human rights activist
- Vojtěch Birnbaum (1877-1934), Czech art historian; (cs)
- Zdzisław Birnbaum, a Polish musician
[edit] Other Surnames
- George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum)
[edit] Variations
- See also
- Birne, Birn
- List of Jewish surnames
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