Vår Frelsers Gravlund
Vår Frelsers Gravlund (Our Savior's Cemetery Grove) is a cemetery in central Oslo , Norway . It was laid out in 1808 after a great famine as a result of the Napoleonic Wars and a cholera epidemic broke out. As early as the 19th century, Vår Frelsers Gravlund became the cemetery for the city's upper class. In 1952 the cemetery was closed. The cemetery gathers the graves of many prominent figures from recent Norwegian history. Part of the cemetery is called Æreslunden (honor grove ).
Grove of Honor
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson , poet
- Karoline Johanne Elisabeth Bjørnson
- Bjørn Bjørnson , actor
- Olaf Bull , poet
- Niels Christian Ditleff , diplomat
- Johanne Dybwad , actress
- Klaus Egge , composer
- Birger Eriksen , officer
- Thomas Fearnley , painter
- Hans Fredrik Gude , painter
- Johan Halvorsen , composer
- Carl Joachim Hambro , politician
- Borghild Hammerich , philanthropist
- Harald Viggo Hansteen , lawyer, murdered by the German occupation forces in 1941
- Kirsten Hansteen , politician
- Axel Heiberg , businessman
- Sigurd Hoel , writer
- Iver Paul Fredrik Holter , composer and conductor
- Henrik Ibsen , writer
- Suzannah Ibsen
- Bergliot Ibsen , singer
- Tancred Ibsen , film director
- Lillebil Ibsen , actress
- Ludvig Paul Irgens Jensen , composer
- Christian Krohg , painter and writer
- Oda Krohg , painter
- Thorvald Lammers , composer, singer and conductor
- Jørgen Gunnarsson Løvland , politician
- Edvard Munch , painter
- Rikard Nordraak , composer of the national anthem of Norway
- Kaja Andrea Karoline Eide Norena , opera singer
- Alf Prøysen , poet
- Johan Severin Svendsen , composer
- Johan Sverdrup , politician
- Marcus Thrane , socialist
- Martin Tranmæl , trade unionist
- Erik Werenskiold , artist
- Rolf Wickstrøm , welder, murdered by the German occupation forces in 1941
- Gisken Wildenvey , writer
- Herman Wildenvey , poet
- Arnulf Øverland , writer
Western part
- Ole Jacob Broch , politician and scientist
- Waldemar Christofer Brøgger , geologist
- Carl Christian Henrik Bernhard Dunker , lawyer
- Olaf Wilhelm Erichsen , journalist and crime writer
- Wilhelm Christian Keilhau Fabritius , printer
- Henrik Groth , publisher
- Laura Gundersen , actress
- Conrad Christian Parnemann Langaard , manufacturer
- Marius Sophus Lie , mathematician
- Thorvald Meyer , businessman
- Agnes Mowinckel , actress
- Axel Otto Normann , theater director
- Christopher Tostrup Paus , papal chamberlain, count, landowner and philanthropist
- Carl Abraham Pihl , railway pioneer
- Ellef Ringnes , brewery owner
- Johannes Vilhelm Christian Steen , politician
- Jan Peder Syse , politician
- Andreas Tofte , businessman and mayor
- Oscar Fredrik Torp , politician
- Jacob Ulrich Holfeldt Tostrup , court jeweler
- Johan Sebastian Welhaven , poet
Southern part
- Ivar Andreas Aasen , linguist, founder of Nynorsk
- Christian Birch-Reichenwald , politician
- Henrik Anker Bjerregaard , Supreme Court Justice and writer
- Elias Blix , psalmist
- Ragnvald Blix , cartoonist
- Matthias Numsen Blytt (1789–1862), botanist
- Jens Kristian Meinich Bratlie , officer and politician
- Christopher Arnt Bruun , pastor
- Johan Collett , politician
- Johan Gottfried Conradi , composer and conductor
- Christian Adolph Diriks , magistrate
- Fritz Heinrich Frølich , businessman
- Christian Henrik Grosch , architect
- Aasta Hansteen , writer and feminist
- Hans Abel Hielm , editor
- Jonas Anton Hielm , politician
- Kristofer Marius Hægstad (1850–1927), linguist
- Gisle Christian Johnson , theologian
- Jakob Rudolf Keyser , historian
- Halfdan Kjerulf , composer
- Gina Krog , editor and feminist
- Christian Krohg , politician
- Per Lasson Krohg , painter
- Mads Ellef Langaard , brewery owner
- Frederik Motzfeldt , Supreme Court judge
- Peter Motzfeldt , officer
- Peter Andreas Munch , writer and professor
- Ole Hartvig Nissen , headmaster
- Christopher Frimann Omsen , Supreme Court Justice
- Jens Rathke , zoologist
- Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz , politician
- Johan Ernst Welhaven Sars , historian
- Georg Ossian Sars , zoologist
- Michael Sars , zoologist
- Amandus Theodor Schibsted , newspaper editor
- Christian Schibsted , publisher
- Georg Sverdrup , linguist
- Mogens Thorsen and his wife Bertha, donors
- Anna Lange Thulesius , pastor's widow
Eastern part
- Theodor Frederik Scheel Abildgaard , politician
- Peter Christen Asbjørnsen , fairy tale collector and writer
- Thomas Ball Barratt , preacher
- Thomas Bennett , businessman
- Harald Berg , industrialist
- Vilhelm Bjerknes , meteorologist
- Otto Albert Blehr , politician
- Randi Blehr , feminist
- Oskar Braaten , writer
- Georg Andreas Bull , architect
- Henrik Bull , architect
- Camilla Collett , writer
- Jonas Collett , politician
- Birger Eriksen , officer
- Christian Fredrik Gotfried Friele , editor and politician
- Knud Graah , manufacturer
- Agathe Ursula Backer Grøndahl , composer
- Thomas Johannessen Heftye , businessman
- Ludvig Peter Karsten , painter
- Ludvig Mathias Lindeman , organist and composer
- Ole Olsen , composer
- Gunerius Pettersen , wholesaler
- Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen , aviator
- Anton Martin Schweigaard , politician
- Christian Homann Schweigaard , politician
- Christian August Selmer , politician
- Johan Peter Selmer , composer
- Mathias Severin Berntsen Skeibrok , sculptor
- Adolf Bredo Stabell , banker, politician
- Hans Georg Jacob Stang , officer
- Peter Severin Steenstrup , entrepreneur
- Rasmus Olai Steinsvik , editor
- Ole Vig , folk plysningsmann
- Andreas Friedrich Wilhelm von Hanno , architect
- Henrik Wergeland , writer
- Hans Jacob Aall , museum director
Northern part
- Harriet Backer , painter
- Eivind Berggrav , bishop and writer
- Brynjulf Bergslien , sculptor
- Knud Bergslien , painter
- Michael Birkeland , Reich archivist and politician
- Alf Bjercke , entrepreneur
- Peder Bjørnson , pastor
- Kristine Elisabeth Heuch Bonnevie , zoologist
- Sophus Bugge , philologist
- Francis Bull , literary historian
- Lorents Henrik Segelcke Dietrichson , art historian and writer
- Frederik Due , politician
- Henrik Adam Due , violinist
- Mary Barratt Due , pianist
- Olaus Johannes Amundsen Fjørtoft , editor
- Georg Ludvig Andreas Frølich , businessman and inventor
- George Francis Hagerup , politician
- Karl Marius Anton Johan Hals , piano manufacturer
- Henrik Anton Schjøtt Heltberg , headmaster
- Kitty Kielland , painter
- Betzy Kjelsberg , women's rights activist and factory supervisor
- Thomas Konow , officer
- Hans Hagerup Krag , street planner
- Magnus Brostrup Landstad , psalmist and pastor
- Borghild Bryhn-Langgaard , opera singer
- Nicolay Nicolaysen , archaeologist
- Ragna Nielsen , educator and feminist
- Erika Røring Møinichen Nissen , pianist
- Hans Arnt Hartvig Paulsen (“ Køla-Pålsen ”), wholesaler and city original
- Hieronymus Arnoldus Reimers , actor
- Johanne Regine Reimers , actress
- Petra Sophie Alette Christine Reimers , actress
- Amund Ringnes , brewery owner
- Anna Rogstad , educator, women's rights activist and politician
- Evald Rygh , businessman and politician
- Christian Julius Schou , wholesaler
- Halvor Arntzen Schou , factory owner
- Olaf Fredrik Schou , art patron
- Anna Cathrine Sethne , educator
- Harald Oskar Sohlberg , painter
- Eyolf Soot , painter
- Emil Stang , politician
- Frederik Stang , politician
- Johan Cordt Harmens Storjohann , pastor
- Carl Struve , actor
- Johan Grundt Tanum , bookseller and publisher
- Sverre Udnæs , director
- Ingvald Undset , archaeologist
- Elisabeth Welhaven , writer
- Wilhelm Andreas Wexels , theologian
See also
Web links
Commons : Vår Frelsers gravlund - album with pictures, videos and audio files
- Information on the Oslo homepage (Norwegian)
- Allocation plans with short biographies (Norwegian) ( PDF ; 1.94 MB)
Coordinates: 59 ° 55 ′ 16 ″ N , 10 ° 44 ′ 40 ″ E