Ixelles Cemetery
cemetery in Ixelles, Brussels, Belgium
Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, pronounced [simtjɛʁ diksɛl]; Dutch: Begraafplaats van Elsene), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium. Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery. It is in fact located between the two main campuses (Solbosch/Solbos and La Plaine/Het Plein) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB).
Notable interments
Personalities buried there include:
Luigi Bigiarelli (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. Lazio
Anna Boch (1848–1936), painter
Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Nobel Prize in medicine
Georges Boulanger (1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide there
Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), architect and urban planner
Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), artist
Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor of La Société Nouvelle
Charles De Coster (1827–1879), novelist
Neel Doff (1858–1942), artists' model and writer
Jean Isaac Effront (1856–1931), inventor
Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez (1936–2015), Nigerian diplomat and business tycoon
Édouard Louis Geerts (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by the architect Victor Horta and the sculptor Charles van der Stappen
Lucette Heuseux (1913–2010), painter
Victor Horta (1861–1947), architect
Louis Hymans (1829–1884), journalist and politician
Paul Hymans (1865–1941), statesman
Joseph Jacquet (1857–1917), army general during World War I
Sylvain de Jong (1868–1928), maker of the luxury Minerva automobile
Frédéric de La Hault (1860–1903), developed an 1885 motorised tricycle
Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer
Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptor
Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908), philatelist
Frederic Neuhaus (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines
Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect
Jacques Saintenoy (1845–1947), architect
Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by Victor Horta
Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), German writer
Marc Van Bever (1974–2010), film producer
Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composer
Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painter
Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist
War graves
In the Field of Honour in Block A are buried First World War soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers), who died mainly as prisoners of war.
See also
List of cemeteries in Belgium
Anderlecht Cemetery
Brussels Cemetery
Laeken Cemetery
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Cemetery
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode Cemetery
Schaerbeek Cemetery
References
Citations
Bibliography
Celis, Marcel (2004). Cimetières et nécropoles. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 38. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.
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