Baumgarten (surname)

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