Kempen

Kempen is a small town in the Viersen district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, in the lower Rhine region northwest of Düsseldorf. Confirmed as a town in 1294, it belonged to the archbishops of Cologne until 1794. It is the birthplace of Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380-1471), who took his name from it and spent most of his life in a monastery near Zwolle; he is traditionally credited with The Imitation of Christ. It is distinct from the Polish town of Kępno, historically also called Kempen, where the biblical commentator Rabbi Meir Leibush Wisser, the Malbim, served as rabbi from 1845 to 1859.

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