Also known as Friedhof Fluntern, the Fluntern Cemetery is located in the
Zürichberg
The Zürichberg is a wooded hill rising to 679 m (2,228 feet), overlooking Lake Zürich and located immediately to the east of the city of Zürich, Switzerland, between the valleys of the Limmat and the Glatt rivers. Its highest point is about ...
district of
Zürich
, neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon
, twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco
Zürich ...
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Notable interments
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Emil Abderhalden
Emil Abderhalden (9 March 1877 – 5 August 1950) was a Swiss biochemist and physiologist. His main findings, though disputed already in the 1910s, were not finally rejected until the late 1990s. Whether his misleading findings were based on f ...
(1877–1950), Swiss biochemist and physiologist
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Johann Ludwig Aberli
Johann Ludwig Aberli (14 November 1723, Winterthur - 17 October 1786, Berne) was a Swiss painter and etcher.
Biography
He was born into a humble family. His father was a watchman. After completing his basic education, he became the student of a ...
(1723–1786), Swiss artist
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Anita Augspurg
Anita Theodora Johanna Sophie Augspurg (22 September 1857 – 20 December 1943) was a German jurist, actress, writer, activist of the radical feminist movement and a pacifist.
Biography
Augspurg was born the youngest daughter of the lawyer ...
(1857–1943), German lawyer, actor, writer and feminist
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Nora Barnacle
Nora Barnacle (21 March 1884 – 10 April 1951) was the muse and wife of Irish author James Joyce. Barnacle and Joyce had their first romantic assignation in 1904 on a date celebrated worldwide as the "Bloomsday" of his modernist novel '' ...
(1884–1951), wife of James Joyce
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Elias Canetti
Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her ...
(1905–1994), Bulgarian-born modernist novelist, playwright
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Therese Giehse
Therese Giehse (; 6 March 1898 – 3 March 1975), born Therese Gift, was a German actress. Born in Munich to German-Jewish parents, she first appeared on the stage in 1920. She became a major star on stage, in films, and in political cabaret. In t ...
(1898–1975), German actress
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Friedrich Hegar
Friedrich Hegar (11 October 1841 – 2 June 1927) was a Swiss composer, conductor, and founding conductor of Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich
The Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich is a Swiss symphony orchestra based in Zürich. Its principal residence i ...
(1841–1927), Swiss composer, conductor, violinist
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James Joyce
James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an Irish novelist, poet, and literary critic. He contributed to the modernist avant-garde movement and is regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of ...
(1882–1941), Irish novelist and poet
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Paul Karrer
Paul may refer to:
*Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name)
* Paul (surname), a list of people
People
Christianity
*Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chri ...
(1889–1971), Swiss organic chemist, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1937
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Warja Lavater
Warja Lavater (28 September 1913 – 3 May 2007) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. She was a Swiss artist and illustrator noted primarily for working in the artist's books genre by creating accordion fold books that re-tell classic fairy tales ...
(1913–2007), Swiss writer
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Albert Meyer (1870–1953), Swiss politician
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Karl Moser (1860–1936), Swiss architect
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Wilhelm Oechsli
Wilhelm Oechsli (6 October 1851, Riesbach – 26 April 1919) was a Swiss historian.
Oechsli studied theology and history at Berlin and Zürich, under Theodor Mommsen among others. In 1887 he took up the new chair of Swiss history at the Swiss Fe ...
(1851–1919), Swiss historian
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Leopold Ružička
Leopold Ružička (; born Lavoslav Stjepan Ružička; 13 September 1887 – 26 September 1976) was a Croatian-Swiss scientist and joint winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his work on polymethylenes and higher terpenes" "including t ...
(1887–1976), Croatian scientist, winner of the 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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Max Rychner (1897–1965), Swiss journalist and author
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Paul Scherrer
Paul Hermann Scherrer (3 February 1890 – 25 September 1969) was a Swiss physicist. Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he studied at Göttingen, Germany, before becoming a lecturer there. Later, Scherrer became head of the Department of Physics ...
(1890–1969), Swiss physicist
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Léopold Szondi (1893–1986), Hungarian psychiatrist
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Péter Szondi (1929–1971), Hungarian literary scholar
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Sigmund Widmer
Sigmund Widmer (born 30 July 1919 in Zürich, died 11 August 2003 in Visp) was a Swiss historian, writer and LdU politician who served as mayor of the city of Zürich.
Early life and education
Born in Zürich to Bertha Gizella, née Oechslin, ...
(1919–2003), Swiss historian, writer and politician
References
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Cemeteries in Switzerland
Buildings and structures in Zürich
Tourist attractions in Zürich
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