No, 56.— 1905.] JOURNAL, r.a.s. (ceylon). 
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MR. ISAAC AUGUSTIN RUMPF. 
By F. H. DE Vos, Barrister-at-Law, and Member of the Society of 
Dutch Literature, &c., of Leyden. 
The Rumpff Family."' 
The earliest known ancestor of this family was Johannes 
Rumpff Baron of Wielross, &c., a Colonel in a regiment of 
Emperor Maximilian II., who died in action in the year 1566 
against the Turks, leaving two sons, Wolfgang and Joost 
Lodewyk, Joost Lodewyk Riimpf was disinherited by his 
father and left for Hessen in 1567, where he married a Miss 
von Troye. He entered the German Army and died in 1587, 
leaving one son, Johannes Rumpff who settled in Laasphe 
(Wittenstein), and married Rebecca von TJfflen^ and had by 
her a son, Herman Rumpff who married Elizabeth Hoff- 
mans, daughter of Caspar Hoffmans and Elizabeth Edgner 
von Rosefeld, The issue of this marriage was Ghristiaan 
Rumpff born at Laasphe in 1580. He was private physician 
to the Count Palatine Fredrik, afterwards King of Bohemia. 
He died on the 24th June, 1645, at the age of 65, in the camp 
then under Frederick Henry in Flanders, as appears from 
the inscription round his portrait by H. Danckerts^ which 
which runs as follows : — 
Christianus Rompff, Lasphensis, Sereniss. Reg. Boh. 
ac Celciss. Araus. Princ. Archiater. Obiit in castris 
Fcederati Belgii XXIV. Junii anno MDGXL V.^a^tatis LXV. 
He married on the 6th November, 1609, at Heidelberg, 
Agneta de Spina (born in Aken, died in Breda, 1649), 
daughter of Petrus de Spina and Jutta van Pallandt. One 
of the children of this marriage was Ghristiaan Gonstantyn 
* Nederlandsche Heraut 1889, pp. 81-103 ; 1890, 250-259. 
