Cemetery of Our Saviour
The Cemetery of Our Saviour (Norwegian: Vår Frelsers gravlund) is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars. Its grounds were extended in 1911. The cemetery has been full and thus closed for new graves since 1952, with interment only being allowed in existing family graves. The cemetery includes five sections, including Æreslunden, Norway's main honorary burial ground, and the western, southern, eastern and northern sections. The Cemetery of Our Saviour became the preferred cemetery of bourgeois and other upper-class families. It has many grand tombstones and is the most famous cemetery in Norway.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1808 |
| Location | |
| Country | Norway |
| Coordinates | 59.91995, 10.74354 |
| Find a Grave | Vår Frelsers Gravlund |
Notable interments
- Ari Behn, writer
- Eivind Astrup, Arctic explorer
- Johan Diederich Behrens, singing teacher and choral conductor
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer
- Peder Bjørnson, priest and father of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Christian Birch-Reichenwald, politician
- Carsten Borchgrevink, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and leader of the Southern Cross Expedition
- Jens Bratlie, politician
- Anne Brown, soprano singer and actress
- Olaf Bull, poet
- Camilla Collett, writer
- Niels Christian Ditleff, diplomat
- Frederik Due, military officer and statesman
- Birger Eriksen, army officer
- Edward Evans, Royal Navy officer and member of the Terra Nova Expedition
- Thomas Fearnley, painter
- Carl Gustav Fleischer, general
- Hans Gude, painter
- Francis Hagerup, professor, diplomat and politician
- C. J. Hambro, journalist, author and politician
- Aasta Hansteen, painter and early feminist
- Viggo Hansteen, lawyer
- Henrik Ibsen, playwright
- Gina Krog, suffragist and activist
- Sophus Lie, mathematician
- Agnes Mowinckel, actress and theatre director
- Edvard Munch, painter
- Harald Nørregaard, lawyer, art collector and Chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association
- Sigurd Odland, theologian
- Ole Olsen, musician
- Christopher Tostrup Paus, count, papal chamberlain and philanthropist
- Bernhard Pauss, theologian and educator
- Henriette Pauss, teacher, editor, humanitarian and missionary leader
- Alf Prøysen, writer and musician
- Hedevig Rosing (1827–1913), author, educator, school founder; first woman to teach in Copenhagen's public schools
- Evald Rygh, banker and politician
- Kirsten Sand, architect
- Christian Homann Schweigaard, lawyer and politician
- Christian August Selmer, politician
- Michael Skjelderup, first Professor of Medicine in Norway, driving force behind the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Christiania
- Emil Stang, jurist and politician
- Frederik Stang, lawyer, public servant, and politician
- Johannes Steen, politician
- Johan Sverdrup, liberal politician and first Prime Minister of Norway
- Marcus Thrane, author, journalist, and the leader of the first labour movement in Norway
- Oscar Torp, politician
- Henrik Wergeland, writer
- Rolf Wickstrøm, labour activist
Gallery
The grave of Edvard Munch
The grave of Henrik Ibsen
Southern section
