Cimitero degli Inglesi (Naples)

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The Cimitero degli Inglesi (Cemetery of the English), or officially, Il Cimitero acattolico di Santa Maria delle Fede , was a cemetery in Naples , near Piazza Garibaldi . It was created in 1826 for non-Catholics, especially Protestants . British and Irish graves predominate.

history

Il Cimitero degli Inglesi, Naples. Tomb of David Vonwiller, tomb of Mary Somerville (rear)

In 1826 the British consul in Naples, Sir Henry Lushington, bought a piece of land in the garden of the church of Santa Maria della Fede to create a cemetery for Protestants.

In 1893 the cemetery was closed to new burials and the English Cemetery on Capodichino , which still exists today, was opened instead , with some of the monuments being transferred to the new cemetery. The gradually decaying site was sold by the British Crown to the city of Naples in 1980 ; Since then she has been trying to prepare the area (in which there are still some gravestones) and to create a small park.

Famous pepole

City.

  • Le Normand Brabazon (1839–1844), son of Lord Meath, Ireland.
  • John Bateman-Dashwood, † September 14, 1861, of England.
  • Keppel Richard Craven (1779–1851), English travel writer. He was the son of Elizabeth Craven and friend of Lady Blessington . He lived in Salerno .
  • Elizabeth Craven (1750–1828), British writer, widow of William Craven, 6th Baron Craven, and wife of Margrave Karl Alexander von Ansbach-Bayreuth . She stayed at the Craven Villa in Posillipo .
  • John Connellan Deane, son of the noted architect Thomas Deane, from Cork , Ireland .
  • Freytag family, from Switzerland.
  • Thomas Gallwey (1790-1858), former British Consul, from County Kerry , Ireland.
  • William Gell (1777–1836), British writer and archaeologist. He was a friend of the Irish travel writer Edward Dodwell and also of Keppel Richard Craven.
  • Henry Hind (1834–1875), former British officer, murdered.
  • Thomas Welch Hunt (28) and his 10 month old wife, Caroline Isham (23), British, murdered December 1824.
  • Charles O'Reilly, († 1849), surgeon, 26 years in Naples, with his wife Emily Winter and daughter Lydia († 1895).
  • Maria Pattison, * Gregg, († October 7, 1870) from Dublin , wife of the naval engineer Thomas Pattison, from one of the largest families in the city
  • Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville (1780–1872) was a Scottish astronomer and mathematician who became well known as a science writer.
  • Anton Sminck van Pitloo (Arnhem 1790 - Naples 1837), painter from the Netherlands.
  • David Vonwiller (1794–1856), from St. Gallen in Switzerland, one of the richest men in the city
  • Wilhelm Wagner (1843–1880), German classical philologist and high school teacher

swell

  • Giancarlo Alisio, Il Cimitero degli Inglesi, Naples, 1993, ISBN 8843545205 .
  • Dieter Richter: Naples. Biography of a City, Berlin (Wagenbach) 2005, pp. 229–34.
  • John A. Davis, Merchants, Monopolists, and Contractors: A Study of Economic Activity and Society in Bourbon Naples, 1815-1860, Ayer Publishing, 1981, ISBN 9780405139864

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Müller: Vonwiller, David. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .

Coordinates: 40 ° 51 ′ 31.6 ″  N , 14 ° 16 ′ 9.5 ″  E