Ixelles Cemetery Explained
| Ixelles Cemetery |
| Map Type: | Belgium Brussels#Belgium |
| Country: | Belgium |
| Location: | Ixelles, Brussels-Capital Region |
| Coordinates: | 50.815°N 4.3919°W |
| Type: | Public, non-denominational |
Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, in French pronounced as /sim.tjɛʁ dik.sɛl/; Dutch; Flemish: 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 and La Plaine) of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).
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[1]
- 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.[2]
See also
References
Bibliography
- Book: Celis, Marcel. Cimetières et nécropoles. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire. 38. Brussels. fr. Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale. 2004.
Notes and References
- Victor Horta, David Dernie and Alastair Carew-Cox, p. 211
- http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/55006/IXELLES%20(ELSENE)%20COMMUNAL%20CEMETERY
