Alter Friedhof, Bonn

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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.

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 ethnomusicologist

Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, astronomer

Ernst Moritz Arndt, author and poet

Johann Baptista Baltzer, Catholic theologian

Maria Magdalena Beethoven, mother of Ludwig van Beethoven

Gustav Bischof, chemist

Sulpiz Boisserée, art collector, art historian

Rudolf Clausius, physicist and mathematician

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, historian and politician

Fereydoun Farrokhzad, Iranian singer, actor, poet, and TV host

Heinrich Geißler, glassblower and physicist

William Keogh, Irish judge

Franz Peter Knoodt, Catholic theologian and church historian

August Macke, painter

Otto Gottlieb Mohnike, physician and naturalist

Karl Friedrich Mohr, chemist

Christian Friedrich Nasse, physician and psychiatrist

Wilhelm Neuland, composer and conductor

Barthold Georg Niebuhr, historian, statesman

Johann Jakob Nöggerath, mineralogist, geologist

Julius Plücker, mathematician and physicist

Joseph Hubert Reinkens, first German Old Catholic bishop

Franz Anton Ries, violinist; he taught Beethoven violin

Agnes Salm-Salm, American wife of soldier Felix Salm-Salm

Hermann Schaaffhausen, anatomist, paleoanthropologist, studied Neanderthal remains

Mildred 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, musician and composer

Robert Schumann, composer

Karl Joseph Simrock, poet, mythologist, translator of the Nibelungenlied

Peter Slodowy, mathematician

Franz Hermann Troschel, zoologist

Hermann Usener, scholar of philology and comparative religion

Gerhard vom Rath, mineralogist

Charlotte von Lengefeld, writer, wife of Schiller

Mathilde Wesendonck, poet, author, and friend of Richard Wagner

Ferdinand Zirkel, geologist, petrographer

References

Alter Friedhof, Bonn Wikipedia

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