Carl Anton Joseph Maria Dominikus Baumstark (4 August 1872 in Konstanz – 31 May 1948 in Bonn) was a German Orientalist, philologist and liturgist.
His main area of study was Oriental liturgical history, its development and its influence on literature, culture and art.
[1] He studied classical and Oriental philology, obtaining his habilitation for both subjects in 1898 at Heidelberg.
Later on, he worked for 15 years as an instructor at a Roman Catholic secondary school in Sasbach, Baden.
He began doubting his Nazi affiliation in 1943, and in 1944 supported the cause of Kilian Kirchhoff, who had been sentenced to death; Baumstark unsuccessfully asked for mercy.