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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.
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
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