The
Assistens Cemetery is founded in 1757 (inaugurated 1760) and located in the
NørrebroNørrebro is the common name for an area in Copenhagen, Denmark located beyond the historic city center , and beyond the location of the old Northern Gate , which was near the current Nørreport station until dismantled in 1856....
section of
CopenhagenCopenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...
,
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
. 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 marketA flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or it may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent...
operates along its walls every Saturday from May to October.
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The
Assistens Cemetery is founded in 1757 (inaugurated 1760) and located in the
NørrebroNørrebro is the common name for an area in Copenhagen, Denmark located beyond the historic city center , and beyond the location of the old Northern Gate , which was near the current Nørreport station until dismantled in 1856....
section of
CopenhagenCopenhagen ; ) is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban area with a population of 1,167,569 and a metropolitan area with a population of 1,875,179...
,
DenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe and the senior member of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries; southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and it is bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark borders both the Baltic and the North Sea...
. 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 marketA flea market or swap meet is a type of bazaar where inexpensive or secondhand goods are sold or bartered. It may be indoors, such as in a warehouse or school gymnasium; or it may be outdoors, such as in a field or under a tent...
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 MunicipalityCopenhagen municipality is the largest of the municipalities making up the city of Copenhagen. It lies at the center of Copenhagen and contains the old historic city. The municipality covers 91.3 km² , and has a population of 518,550...
. The other cemeteries are
Vestre CemeteryVestre Cemetery is cemetery located in a large park setting in the Kongens Enghave district of Copenhagen, Denmark. With its 54 hectares it is the largest cemetery in Denmark....
, 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
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard , Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm.- Training as an artist :...
(1743–1809), painter
- Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author and poet noted for his children's stories. These include "The Steadfast Tin Soldier", "The Snow Queen", "The Little Mermaid", "Thumbelina", "The Little Match Girl", and the "The Ugly Duckling".During his lifetime he was acclaimed for having delighted...
(1805–1875), writer
- Christian Bohr
Christian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr was a Danish physician, and father of the famous physicist Niels Bohr, as well as the famous mathematician Harald Bohr...
(1855–1911), physician
- Harald Bohr
Harald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. As a student, his footballing skill meant he was called up to the Danish national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding...
(1887–1951), mathematician and football player
- Niels Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
(1885–1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- Richard B. Boone
Richard Bently Boone was an American jazz musician and scat singer.Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Richard Boone sang in his Baptist church choir as a boy, then began playing the trombone at the age of twelve. He served with the U.S. Army from 1948 to 1953 where he played trombone in a military band...
(1930–1999), American jazz musician
- Kenny Drew
Kenneth Sidney Drew was an American jazz pianist.-Biography:Born in New York City, New York, he first recorded with Howard McGhee in 1949, and over the next two years recorded with Buddy DeFranco, Coleman Hawkins, Milt Jackson, Charlie Parker, Buddy Rich, and Dinah Washington...
(1928–1993), American jazz pianist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg was a Danish painter. He was born in Blåkrog in the Duchy of Schleswig , to Henrik Vilhelm Eckersberg, painter and carpenter, and Ingeborg Nielsdatter...
(1783–1853), painter
- Caspar Frederik Harsdorff
Caspar Frederik Harsdorff, also known as C.F. Harsdorff, , Danish neoclassical architect is considered to be Denmark’s leading architect in the late 18th century, and is referred to as “The Father of Danish Classicism”.- Early life and training :He was born Caspar Frederik Harsdørffer in...
(1735–1799), architect
- Henry Heerup
Henry Heerup was a painter and sculptor born in Frederiksberg, Denmark.He studied painting under Axel Jørgensen and Einar Nielsen at the Royal Danish Academy of Art. He also studied sculpture there under Einar Utzon-Frank. He painted The Old Oak in Wolfvalley in 1924. This was his first oil...
(1907–1993), painter, sculptor
- Søren Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Church of Denmark...
(1813–1855), existential philosopher
- Christen Købke
Christen Schiellerup Købke , Danish painter, was born in Copenhagen to Peter Berendt Købke, a baker, and his wife Cecilie Margrete. He was one of 11 children...
(1819–1848), painter
- Lauritz Melchior
Lauritz Melchior was a Danish and later American opera singer. He was the pre-eminent Wagnerian tenor of the late 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and has since come to be considered the quintessence of his voice type.-Biography:...
(1890–1973), opera singer
- Poul Martin Møller
Poul Martin Møller was a vital influence on the more famous philosopher Kierkegaard, his prize pupil. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Copenhagen for much of his life...
(1794–1838), philosopher, writer
- Martin Andersen Nexø
Martin Andersen Nexø was a Danish writer. He was the first significant Danish author to depict the working class in his writings, and the first great Danish communist writer.-Biography:...
(1869–1954), novelist
- Regine Olsen
Regine Schlegel née Olsen was a Danish woman chiefly remembered for being briefly engaged to the philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard from September 1840 to October 1841. After the relationship ended, Regine married Johan Frederik Schlegel, a prominent Danish civil servant...
(1822–1904)
- Hans Christian Ørsted
Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish physicist and chemist who is most widely known for observing that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism...
(1777–1851), scientist
- Rasmus Rask (1787–1832), scholar and philologist
- Natasja Saad
Natasja Saad , also known as Lil T, Little T and Natasja, was a Danish rapper and reggae singer whose vocals on a popular reggae fusion remix of "Calabria" gained her fame and a number one spot on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart six months after her death in a car accident.-Early life and...
(1974–2007), rapper and reggae singer
- Peter von Scholten
Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten was Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1827 to 1848. He was born in Viborg as the son of captain Casimir von Scholten and Catharina Elisabeth de Moldrup....
(1784–1854), governor of the Danish West IndiesThe Danish West Indies or "Danish Antilles", were a colony of Denmark-Norway and Denmark in the Caribbean, now known as the United States Virgin Islands. Jomfruøerne is the Danish geographic name for the Virgin Islands. -History:The Danish West India and Guinea Company settled on St...
, who emancipated the slaves there in 1848
- P.C. Skovgaard (1817–1875), painter
- Dan Turèll
Dan Turèll , affectionately nicknamed "Onkel Danny" , was a popular Danish writer with notable influence on Danish literature.-Overview:...
(1946–1993), writer
- Georges Ulmer
Georges Ulmer was born with the given name, Jørgen Frederik Ulmer, on 16 February 1919 at Copenhagen, and died on 29 September 1989 at Marseille, , France. He was a composer, librettist, and actor of Danish origin, who became a naturalized French citizen...
(1919–1989), composer, singer of French music
- Frederik Vermehren
Johan Frederik Nikolai Vermehren, also known as Frederik Vermehren, , Danish realistic genre and portrait painter, was born in Ringsted to glazier Peter Frederik Nikolai Vermehren and his wife Sofie Amalie. His artistic career took place during the period of Danish art between the Golden Age of...
, (1823–1910), painter
- Eugen Warming (1841–1924), botanist
- Ben Webster
Benjamin Francis Webster , aka "The Brute" or "Frog," was an influential American jazz tenor saxophonist. Webster, born in Kansas City, Missouri, was considered one of the three most important "swing tenors" along with Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young...
(1909–1973), American jazz musician
- Johannes Wiedewelt
Johannes Wiedewelt, , Danish neoclassical sculptor, was born in Copenhagen to royal sculptor to the Danish Court, Just Wiedewelt, and his wife Birgitte Lauridsdatter...
(1731–1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery
Image:Assistens Kirkegård Niels Bohr.jpg|The family grave of Niels BohrNiels Henrik David Bohr was a Danish physicist who made fundamental contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum mechanics, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922. Bohr mentored and collaborated with many of the top physicists of the century at his institute in...
, Christian BohrChristian Harald Lauritz Peter Emil Bohr was a Danish physician, and father of the famous physicist Niels Bohr, as well as the famous mathematician Harald Bohr...
and Harald BohrHarald August Bohr was a Danish mathematician and football player. As a student, his footballing skill meant he was called up to the Danish national team for the 1908 Summer Olympics, where he won a silver medal. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding...
Image:Jrb_grave_soren_kierkegaard_aAssistens_Kirkegård.JPG|The grave of Søren KierkegaardSøren Aabye Kierkegaard was a prolific 19th century Danish philosopher and theologian. Kierkegaard strongly criticised both the Hegelianism of his time and what he saw as the empty formalities of the Church of Denmark...
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