For who knows what is good for a man in life, during the few and meaningless days he passes through like a shadow? Who can tell him what will happen under the sun after he is gone?

Kohelet 6:12

Benjamin Gompertz

Benjamin Gompertz

  • Occupation types
    Scholarly
    Scholarly activity -
    activity related to the expansion of the limits of knowledge.

    This type of activity includes following areas:

    • science,
    • philosophy,
    • theology, etc.
  • Comments
    Was a self educated mathematician, denied admission to university because he was Jewish. Nevertheless he was made Fellow of the Royal Society in 1819. Gompertz is today mostly known for his Gompertz law (of mortality), a demographic model published in 1825.
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Benjamin Gompertz

(17791779 Gregorian
1778 Julian
5539 Hebrew, London - 18651865 Gregorian
1864 Julian
5625 Hebrew, London)


Salomon Barent Gomperz

(17271727 Gregorian
1726 Julian
5487 Hebrew - 18081808 Gregorian
1807 Julian
5568 Hebrew, London)


Justina Lydia Gompertz

(18111811 Gregorian
1810 Julian
5571 Hebrew - 18831883 Gregorian
1882 Julian
5643 Hebrew)

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