Ippolit was born on 27 January in 1851, in Berdychiv to Stepan Stepanovich Gromeka, a well-known publicist and a governor (1867–1875) of Siedlce and Yekaterina Fyodorovna Shcherbatska.
In the winter of 1888-1889, Gromeka fell from a sleigh during hunting with a severe bruise in his chest.
During his short research career, just over than 10 years, Gromeka has produced many important contributions to the field of fluid mechanics through 11 works, starting from his Master's thesis on capillary phenomena and his last work in 1889 on the effect of temperature distribution on sound waves.
[3] He provided an original and modern description of the capillarity phenomena, settling for the first time the discrepancy that was prevalent between Young's and Laplace's theories.
[6] A special issue in the journal Fluids in honour of Gromeka was produced in 2024.