The Assistens Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) is founded in 1757 (inaugurated 1760) and located in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. 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 yellow walls of the cemetery, especially the one facing Nørrebrogade has in recent years become the target of many graffiti painters.
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.
People buried at Assistens
Cemetery
- Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1743–1809), painter
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), writer
- Christian Bohr (1855–1911), physician
- Harald Bohr (1887–1951), mathematician and football player
- Niels Bohr (1885–1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- Richard B. Boone (1930–1999), American jazz musician
- Kenny Drew (1928–1993), American jazz pianist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783–1853), painter
- Caspar Frederik Harsdorff (1735–1799), architect
- Henry Heerup (1907–1993), painter, sculptor
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), existential philosopher
- Christen Købke (1819–1848), painter
- Lauritz Melchior (1890–1973), opera singer
- Poul Martin Møller (1794–1838), philosopher, writer
- Martin Andersen Nexø (1869–1954), novelist
- Regine Olsen (1822–1904)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777–1851), scientist
- Rasmus Rask (1787–1832), scholar and philologist
- Natasja Saad (1974–2007), rapper and reggae singer
- 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
- Frederik Vermehren, (1823–1910), painter
- Eugen Warming (1841–1924), botanist
- 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
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