Leopold Gompertz

The roots of Leopold Gompertz go back to Mordechai Gumpel before 1516.  Mordechai Juda Gumpel, father of Rabbi Salomon ben Mordechai Gompel Emmerich (Gumpel), was born in Emmerich between 1531 and 1545. Leopold Gompertz was married to Henriette Charlotte Wetzlar, born on February 3, 1864 in Frankfurt am Main, whose family roots can be traced back to Amschel Wetzlar, who died in Frankfurt am Main in 1604. Leopold and Henriette Charlotte Gompertz had a son - Leon Julius Bernhard Gompertz, born on January 25, 1888 in Amsterdam - died on July 15, 1943 in Amsterdam. Leopold Gompertz died at the age of 61 on January 26, 1922 in London. Henriette Charlotte Gompertz died on September 13, 1940 at the age of 76 in Naarden.