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About the Gamper surname

Unter anderem Nachname einer deutschbaltischen Familie, beginnend mit dem aus Leipzig stammenden Johannes Gamper, der im 16. Jahrhundert in Kurland eingewandert war.

Name of a Baltic-German family, descended from Johannes Gamper who in the 16th century emigrated from Leipzig to Courland. Andere Schreibweisen/Other spellings:

  • Гампер (im Russischen Reich / in the Russian Empire)
  • Gampert (niederländischer Zweig ab ca. 1730 / Dutch branch from ca. 1730)

The name Gamper also appears in Switzerland and a few Swiss Gamper family members emigrated to the Russian Empire between the 18th and 19th centuries.

From the start of the 19th century a Jewish family adopting the last name Gamper appeared in Courland -- in 1802 "Abraham Widder" purchased the Gamper family's house in Goldingen (Kuldiga) after the last members of the Baltic German Gamper family in Goldingen had died or left the town and started calling himself "Abraham Widder Gamper" and passing this newly acquired last name to his heirs.

Prominente Mitglieder der Deutsch-Baltischen Familie Gamper / Prominent Members of the Baltic German Gamper family:

  1. Johannes Gamper (aus Leipzig, ca. 1506 - ca. 1575), Kurländischer Landschreiber
  2. Johann (Johannes) Gamper (ca. 1580 - 1640), Autor und Lehrer an der Domschule Riga
  3. Martin Gamper (ca. 1620 - after 1675) aus Goldingen, Kurland, zwischen 1639 und 1648 in Königsberg, Advocatus
  4. Heinrich Gamper (after 1678 - 1742), Chirurg/Surgeon
  5. Gothard Gamper(t) (ca. 1700 - ca. 1760)
  6. Johan(n) Adam Gamper (from Mitau) - soldier serving in the Dutch East India Company in the 1770s (died travelling to Batavia for a 2nd tour of duty in 1781)
  7. Johann Heinrich Hermann Gamper (1745 - 1819), Stadtältester der Großen Gilde zu Libau
  8. Friedrich Christian Gamper (1748 - 1814), Stadtältester der Großen Gilde zu Libau
  9. Hermann Christoph Gamper / Ермолай Ермолаевич Гампер (1750 - 1814), Russischer Generalmajor / Russian Major General (Amburger, Wikipedia: EnRu)

Possible relatives of the Baltic German family / Andere mögliche Familienmitglieder (genaue Herkunft und Zusammenhang unbekannt):

  • Bartholomaeus (Bartholo) Gamper / Jamper (aus Adorf), Magister und Vikar zu Merseburg - wahrscheinlich ein Verwandter des Johannes Gamper aus Leipzig
  • Heinricus (Heinrich) Gamper / Gamber (aus Zwickau), 1495 Student in Leipzig
  • Gotthard Hermann Gamper (aus Riga, Student, 1765 in Jena erwaehnt)