Alter Friedhof, Bonn
Cemetery in Bonn, Germany
Image of the Alter Friedhof Alter Friedhof (Old Cemetery) is a historically significant cemetery in Bonn , Germany , 1.2 hectares (3 acres) in area, located near the center of the modern city.[ 1]
The cemetery was established in 1715 as a cemetery for soldiers and strangers, outside the city walls of the time. It remained in regular use until the new North cemetery opened in 1884, after which burials gradually ceased. It is an area of greenery in the middle of the modern city.
Notable burials or monuments
Ella Adayevskaya , Russian composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologistFriedrich Wilhelm Argelander , astronomerErnst Moritz Arndt , author and poetJohann Baptista Baltzer , Catholic theologianAugust Beer , scientistMaria Magdalena van Beethoven , mother of Ludwig van Beethoven Gustav Bischof , chemistSulpiz Boisserée , art collector, art historianHeinrich Carl Breidenstein , musicologistRudolf Clausius , physicist and mathematicianFriedrich Christoph Dahlmann , historian and politicianHeinrich Geißler , glassblower and physicistWilliam Keogh , Irish judgeFranz Peter Knoodt , Catholic theologian and church historianAugust Macke , painterOtto Gottlieb Mohnike , physician and naturalistKarl Friedrich Mohr , chemistChristian Friedrich Nasse , physician and psychiatristWilhelm Neuland , composer and conductorBarthold Georg Niebuhr , historian, statesmanJohann Jakob Nöggerath , mineralogist, geologistJulius Plücker , mathematician and physicistElsa Reger , wife of Max Reger and founder of the Max-Reger-Institute Joseph Hubert Reinkens , first German Old Catholic bishopFranz Anton Ries , violinist; he taught Beethoven violinAgnes Salm-Salm , American wife of soldier Felix Salm-Salm Hermann Schaaffhausen , anatomist, paleoanthropologist, studied Neanderthal remainsMildred Scheel , physician and founder of German Cancer Aid; wife of German president Walter Scheel August Wilhelm Schlegel , poet, translator, and leading German Romantic Adele Schopenhauer , an author, sister of the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann , musicians and composersKarl Joseph Simrock , poet, mythologist, translator of the Nibelungenlied Peter Slodowy , mathematicianFranz Hermann Troschel , zoologistHermann Usener , scholar of philology and comparative religionGerhard vom Rath , mineralogistCharlotte von Lengefeld , writer, wife of Schiller Mathilde Wesendonck , poet, author, and friend of Richard Wagner Ferdinand Zirkel , geologist, petrographerWilhelm Conrad Röntgen , physicist
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