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J C Pompe was the first person to describe the disease which now bears his name.
He was a Dutch pathologist who studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and graduated M.D. with a thesis in 1936 which was on the disorder that is now named after him.
He was a very cultivated man who read Sophocles in Greek and could recite extensively from the works of the Dutch Vondel. He was a devout Catholic and interested in liturgy.
In the 2nd World War a secret transmitter was found in his laboratory and he was imprisoned by the Nazis in February 1945. After a railway line was blown up near Sint Pancras, he and nineteen others were shot as a retaliative measure two weeks before the liberation of the Netherlands.

Dr.Pompe is remembered by a memorial in a hospital in Amsterdam and in Sint Pancras.

He is sometimes confused with his even more famous brother Willem Petrus Joseph Pompe (1893-1968), a lawyer and criminologist who has given his name to the Willem Pompe Institute in Utrecht (an institute for criminology) and the Pompe Clinic in Nijmegen (a clinic for psychologically disturbed criminals).

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Joannes Cassianus Pompe 1901-1945	Joannes Cassianus Pompe 1901-1945
J C Pompe was the first person to describe the disease which now bears his name. He was a Dutch pathologist who studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam and graduated M.D. with a thesis in 1936 which was on the disorder that is now named after him. He was a very cultivated man who read Sophocles in Greek and could recite extensively from the works of the Dutch Vondel. He was a devout Catholic and interested in liturgy. In the 2nd World War a secret transmitter was found in his laboratory and he was imprisoned by the Nazis in February 1945. After a railway line was blown up near Sint Pancras, he and nineteen others were shot as a retaliative measure two weeks before the liberation of the Netherlands. Dr.Pompe is remembered by a memorial in a hospital in Amsterdam and in Sint Pancras. He is sometimes confused with his even more famous brother Willem Petrus Joseph Pompe (1893-1968), a lawyer and criminologist who has given his name to the Willem Pompe Institute in Utrecht (an institute for criminology) and the Pompe Clinic in Nijmegen (a clinic for psychologically disturbed criminals).	J.C. Pompe beschreef voor het eerst de ziekte die nu zijn naam draagt. Hij was een patholoog die aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam geneeskunde studeerde. Hij promoveerde in 1936 met een proefschrift over de ziekte die nu naar hem is genoemd. Hij was een ontwikkeld man die Sophocles in het Grieks las en uitgebreid uit de werken van Vondel kon voordragen. Hij was een vroom katholiek en had belangstelling voor liturgie. In de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd een illegale zender in zijn laboratorium gevonden en werd hij in februari 1945 door de nazis gevangen gezet. Nadat in de buurt van Sint Pancras, een dorpje bij Alkmaar, een trein met ammunitie door het verzet was opgeblazen, werd hij, samen met negentien anderen gefusilleerd als vergeldingsmaatregel. Twee weken voor de bevrijding. Dr. Pompe wordt herdacht door gedenktekens in een ziekenhuis in Amsterdam en in Sint Pancras. Hij wordt soms verward met zijn nog bekendere broer Willem Petrus Joseph Pompe (1893-1968), hoogleraar strafrecht, strafprocesrecht en criminologie, naar wie het Willem Pompe Instituut in Utrecht (een criminologisch instituut) en de Pompe Kliniek in Nijmegen (voor psychisch gestoorde delinquenten) zijn genoemd.