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 ethnomusicologist
Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander , astronomer
Ernst Moritz Arndt , author and poet
Johann Baptista Baltzer , Catholic theologian
August Beer , scientist
Maria Magdalena van Beethoven , mother of
Ludwig van Beethoven
Gustav Bischof , chemist
Sulpiz Boisserée , art collector, art historian
Heinrich Carl Breidenstein , musicologist
Rudolf Clausius , physicist and mathematician
Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann , historian and politician
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
Elsa Reger , wife of
Max Reger and founder of the
Max-Reger-Institute
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 and
Robert Schumann , musicians and composers
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
External links
50°44′09″N 7°05′25″E / 50.7358°N 7.0903°E / 50.7358; 7.0903