Fluntern Cemetery

Updated on Oct 12, 2024

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Address 8044 Zürich, Switzerland		Phone +41 44 251 87 00

Burials James Joyce, Elias Canetti, Nora Barnacle Similar Fluntern, Pavillon Le Corbusier, Haus Konstruktiv, FIFA headquarters, Fraumünster

Also known as Friedhof Fluntern, Fluntern Cemetery is located in the Zürichberg district of Zürich.

Notable interments

Emil Abderhalden (1877 – 1950) Swiss biochemist and physiologist

Anita Augspurg (1857 – 1943) German lawyer, actor, writer and feminist

Nora Barnacle (1884 – 1951) the muse and wife of James Joyce

Friedrich Hegar (1841 – 1927) Swiss composer, conductor, violinist

James Joyce (1882 – 1941) Irish novelist and poet

Therese Giehse (1898 – 1975) distinguished German actress

Elias Canetti (1905 – 1994) Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright

Paul Karrer (1889 – 1971) Swiss organic chemist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937

Albert Meyer (1870 - 1953) Swiss politician

Karl Moser (1860 – 1936) architect from Switzerland

Wilhelm Oechsli (1851 – 1919) Swiss historian

Leopold Ružička (1887 – 1976) Croatian scientist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Paul Scherrer (1890 – 1969) Swiss physicist

Sigmund Widmer (1919 - 2003) Swiss historian, writer and politician

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