Herman Gompertz was a son from the 2nd marriage of his fathet Bernard Elias Gompertz from Rheinberg Germany and Bertha de Beer from Leeuwarden. Bernard’s first wife Sara Schoolmeester, born in Haarlem, died 14 July 1878. She had one son, Edmond, who was born in 1877. From his 2nd marriage, Herman’s father had eight more children, of whom the last one was a stillborn daughter. Four other children h…