Fluntern Cemetery Explained

Also known as Friedhof Fluntern, the Fluntern Cemetery is located in the Zürichberg district of Zürich.

Notable interments

• Emil Abderhalden (1877–1950), Swiss biochemist and physiologist
• Johann Ludwig Aberli (1723–1786), Swiss artist
• Anita Augspurg (1857–1943), German lawyer, actor, writer and feminist
• Nora Barnacle (1884–1951), wife of James Joyce
• Elias Canetti (1905–1994), Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright
• Therese Giehse (1898–1975), German actress
• Friedrich Hegar (1841–1927), Swiss composer, conductor, violinist
• James Joyce (1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet
• Paul Karrer (1889–1971), Swiss organic chemist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937
• Daniel Keel (1930-2011), Swiss publisher, founder of Diogenes Verlag
• Warja Lavater (1913–2007), Swiss artist and illustrator^[1]
• Albert Meyer (1870–1953), Swiss politician
• Karl Moser (1860–1936), Swiss architect
• Wilhelm Oechsli (1851–1919), Swiss historian
• Leopold Ružička (1887–1976), Croatian scientist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• Max Rychner (1897–1965), Swiss journalist and author
• Paul Scherrer (1890–1969), Swiss physicist
• Léopold Szondi (1893–1986), Hungarian psychiatrist
• Péter Szondi (1929–1971), Hungarian literary scholar
• Sigmund Widmer (1919–2003), Swiss historian, writer and politician^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Friedhof Fluntern–Gräber von prominenten Verstorbenen (PDF). 5 October 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20160308015150/https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/content/dam/stzh/ted/Deutsch/gsz/Natur-%20und%20Erlebnisraeume/Publikationen%20und%20Broschueren/Friedhoefe/Orientierungsplaene/09_09_FH%20Fluntern%20Persoenlichkeiten_08.pdf. 2016-03-08. dead. de.
2. Web site: Friedhof Fluntern. www.stadt-zuerich.ch. German. 2015-06-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20190329164405/https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/gsz/natur-_und_erlebnisraeume/friedhoefe/friedhof_fluntern.html. 2019-03-29.