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Birnbaum (German: "pear tree") may refer to:

• Birnbaum an der Warthe and Kreis Birnbaum, today Międzychód, a city and county in Posen district, Poland
• Birnbaum (Franconian Forest) , a city in the Franconian Forest
• Birnbaum (Gummersbach), a district of Gummersbach, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
• Birnbaum (Lesach), a city in Lesach
• Birnbaumer Wald, an elevated plain on the edge of the Alps in Slovenia

As a surname

Birnbaum is a German and Ashkenazi Jewish surname that can refer to:

• Alfred Birnbaum
• Allan Birnbaum
• Heinrich Birnbaum
• Jeffrey Birnbaum, columnist
• Jeremiah Birnbaum
• Karl Birnbaum (1878-1950), German neurologist
• Mark Birnbaum, ragtime pianist
• Menachem Birnbaum
• Nathan Birnbaum, Jewish philosopher
• Norman Birnbaum (born 1926), US sociologist
• Solomon Birnbaum, Yiddish linguist and son of Nathan Birnbaum
• Uriel Birnbaum
• Philip Birnbaum, translator of Jewish prayer book
• Yaakov (Jacob) Birnbaum, human rights activist

• George Burns (born Nathan Birnbaum)

See also

• Daniel Barenboim
• Michael Berenbaum

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Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

German

Birnbaum

Etymology

Birne 'pear' + Baum 'tree'

Noun

Birnbaum m. (genitive Birnbaums, plural Birnbaüme)

1. (botany) A pear tree

Derived terms

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Birnbaum

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• Apfelbaumholz m.

Related terms

• Apfelbaum m.
• Kirschbaum m.
• Mandelbaum m.