Ixelles Cemetery

Cemetery in Ixelles, Belgium

50°48′54″N 4°23′31″E / 50.81500°N 4.39194°E / 50.81500; 4.39194TypePublic, non-denominational

Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, pronounced [sim.tjɛʁ dik.sɛl]; Dutch: 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]

References

Citations

^ Victor Horta, David Dernie and Alastair Carew-Cox, p. 211
^ [1] CWGC Cemetery Report. British details obtained from casualty record.

Bibliography

Celis, Marcel (2004). Cimetières et nécropoles. Bruxelles, ville d'Art et d'Histoire (in French). Vol. 38. Brussels: Éditions de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale.