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ASSISTENS CEMETERY

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The 'Assistens Cemetery' (Danish: ''Assistens Kirkegård'') is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark (Coordinates ). Founded in 1711, it is the largest cemetery in the city. It is sometimes called the Nørrebro Cemetery, and is a popular place for people to take a stroll, look at the old graves and monuments, and to have a picnic. A flea market operates along its walls every Saturday from May to October.
The cemetery is one of five run by Copenhagen Municipality. The other cemeteries are Vestre Cemetery, Brønshøj Cemetery, Sundby Cemetery, and Bispebjerg Cemetery.
Among the notables interred here are several African-American jazz musicians who made Copenhagen their home.

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People Buried at Assistens Cemetery
See also
External links

People Buried at Assistens Cemetery


The grave of Niels Bohr


Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1743-1809), painter

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), writer

Niels Bohr (1885-1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner

Richard B. Boone (1930-1999), American jazz musician

August Bournonville (1805-1879), ballet dancer, choreographer

Kenny Drew (1928-1993), American jazz pianist

Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853), painter

Henry Heerup (1907-1993), painter, sculptor

Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher

Christen Købke (1819-1848), painter

Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973), opera singer

Poul Martin Møller (1794-1838), philosopher

Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954), novelist

Regine Olsen (1822-1904)

Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), scientist

Rasmus Rask (1787-1832), scholar and philologist

Peter von Scholten (1784-1854), governor of the Danish West Indies, who emancipated the slaves there in 1848

P.C. Skovgaard (1817-1875), painter

Dan Turèll (1946-1993), writer

Georges Ulmer (1919-1989), composer, singer of French music

Ben Webster (1909-1973), American jazz musician

Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery

See also



List of famous cemeteries

External links



Assistens Cemetery's website (in Danish only)

Copenhagen's cemeteries main site (in Danish only)

Folder about Assistens Cemetery in English (PDF format)

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