Ixelles Cemetery

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Ixelles Cemetery

Military monument, sculptor Charles Samuel, at the "pelouse d'honneur".

Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, Dutch: Begraafplaats van Elsene), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium. Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, north of the actual cemetery. It is in fact located between the two main campuses of the Université libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch and La Plaine).

Notable interments[]

Personalities buried there include:

• , (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. Lazio
• Anna Boch (1848–1936), painter
• Jules Bordet (1870–1961), Nobel Prize in medicine
• Georges Boulanger (1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide here
• Victor Bourgeois (1897–1962), architect and urban planner
• Marcel Broodthaers (1924–1976), artist
• Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor of
• Charles De Coster (1827–1879), novelist
• Neel Doff (1858–1942), artists' model and writer
• (1856–1931), inventor
• (1936–2015), African diplomat and business tycoon
• (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by architect Victor Horta and sculptor Charles van der Stappen^[1]
• (1913–2010), painter
• Victor Horta (1861–1947), architect
• Louis Hymans (1829–1884), journalist and politician
• Paul Hymans (1865–1941), statesman
• (1857–1917), army general during World War I
• (1868–1928, maker of the luxury Minerva automobile
• Frédéric de La Hault (1860–1903), developed an 1885 motorized tricycle
• Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer
• Constantin Meunier (1831–1905), painter and sculptor
• Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908), philatelist
• (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines
• Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect
• (1845–1947), architect
• Ernest Solvay (1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by Victor Horta
• Carl Sternheim (1878–1942), German writer
• Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composer
• Antoine Wiertz (1806–1865), painter
• Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931), violinist
• (1974–2010), film producer

War graves[]

In the pelouse d'honneur in Block A are buried First World War soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers), who died mainly as prisoners of war.^[2]

References[]

External links[]

• Ixelles Cemetery at Find a Grave

Coordinates: 50°48′54″N 4°23′31″E / 50.815°N 4.392°E / 50.815; 4.392

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