Ixelles Cemetery
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The Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, Dutch: begraafplaats van Elsene), located in Ixelles/Elsene in the southern part of Brussels, is one of the major cemeteries in Belgium.
The 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).
Personalities buried here include:
- Anna Boch (1848-1936), painter
- Jules Bordet (1870-1961), Nobel Prize in medicine
- Georges Boulanger (1837-1891), French revolutionary
- Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976), artist
- Fernand Brouez (1861-1900) , editor La Société Nouvelle
- Charles De Coster (1827-1879), novelist
- Neel Doff (1858-1942), writer
- Jean Isaac Effront (1856-1931), inventor
- Victor Horta (1861-1947), architect
- Louis Hymans (1829-1884), journalist and politician
- Paul Hymans (1865-1941), statesman
- Camille Lemonnier (1844–1913), writer
- Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), painter and sculptor
- Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833-1908), philatelist
- Frederic Neuhaus (1846-1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines
- Paul Saintenoy (1862-1952), architect
- Ernest Solvay (1838-1922), scientist
- Eugène Ysaÿe (1858-1931), violinist
- Antoine Wiertz (1806-1865), painter
