Assistants Cemetery (Copenhagen)

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The Assistants Cemetery (Danish: Assistens Kirkegård) is located in a large park in the Nørrebro section of Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1757, 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 yellow walls of the cemetery, especially the one facing Nørrebrogade has in recent years become the target of many graffiti painters.

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

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), existential 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)
Hans Christian Ørsted (1777-1851), scientist
Rasmus Rask (1787-1832), scholar and philologist
Natasja Saad (1974-2007), rapper and reggae singer
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
Eugen Warming (1841-1924), botanist
Ben Webster (1909-1973), American jazz musician
Johannes Wiedewelt (1731-1802), neoclassical sculptor, created many monuments at this cemetery