Heinrich Gomperz (January 18, 1873 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary – December 27, 1942 in Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian philosopher.
[1] After Austria merged with the German Reich in the Anschluss of 1938, Gomperz was persecuted due to his Jewish heritage[2] under the newly enacted Dismantling Act.
In 1935, he emigrated to the USA with the help of F. C. S. Schiller, where he held a visiting professorship at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles until his death.
In Karl Kraus' Die letzten Tage der Menschheit, Gomperz is mentioned as a guest in scene 0/3 of the prelude (in Café Pucher).
He was married to the interior designer Adele “Ada” Stepnitz (* December 11, 1884 in Vienna[3]; died between June 12 and 15, 1954 in the Pacific off Los Angeles[4]).