Assistens Cemetery
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The Assistens Graveyard (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1711, it is the largest cemetery in the city. 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 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.
[edit] People Buried at Assistens Cemetery
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- Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard (1743-1809), painter
- Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875), writer
- Niels Bohr (1885-1962), scientist and Nobel Prize winner
- Richard B. Boone (1930-1999), American jazz musician
- August Bournonville (1805-1879), ballet dancer, choreographer
- Kenny Drew (1928-1993), American jazz pianist
- Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783-1853), painter
- Henry Heerup (1907-1993), painter, sculptor
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), existentialist philosopher
- Christen Købke (1819-1848), painter
- Lauritz Melchior (1890-1973), opera singer
- Poul Martin Møller (1794-1838), philosopher
- Martin Andersen Nexø (1869-1954), novelist
- Regine Olsen (1822-1904)
- Rasmus Rask (1787-1832), scholar and philologist
- 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
- Ben Webster (1909-1973), American jazz musician
- Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), scientist
