Ixelles Cemetery (french: Cimetière d'Ixelles, ; nl, Begraafplaats van Elsene), located in

Ixelles ( French, ) or (Dutch, ), is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located to the south-east of Brussels' city centre, it is geographically bisected by the City of Brussels. It is also bordered by the muni ...

in the southern part of

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, is one of the major

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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

campus A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a college campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls, student centers or dining halls, and park-like se ...

es (''Solbosch'' and ''La Plaine'') of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB).

Notable interments

Personalities buried there include: * Luigi Bigiarelli (1876–1908), athlete, founder of the S.S. Lazio *

Anna Boch Anna Rosalie Boch (10 February 1848 – 25 February 1936) was a Belgian painter, born in Saint-Vaast, Hainaut. Anna Boch died in Ixelles in 1936 and is interred there in the Ixelles Cemetery, Brussels, Belgium. Artistic style Boch partici ...

(1848–1936), painter *

Jules Bordet Jules Jean Baptiste Vincent Bordet (; 13 June 1870 – 6 April 1961) was a Belgian immunologist and microbiologist. The bacterial genus ''Bordetella'' is named after him. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to him in 1919 for ...

(1870–1961),

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in medicine *

Georges Boulanger Georges Ernest Jean-Marie Boulanger (29 April 1837 – 30 September 1891), nicknamed Général Revanche ("General Revenge"), was a French general and politician. An enormously popular public figure during the second decade of the Third Repub ...

(1837–1891), French Minister of War and exile in Belgium, who committed suicide there *

Victor Bourgeois Victor Bourgeois (29 August 1897 – 24 July 1962) was a Belgian architect and urban planner, considered the greatest Belgian modernist architect. Bourgeois was born in Charleroi and studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels from ...

(1897–1962), architect and urban planner *

Marcel Broodthaers Marcel Broodthaers (28 January 1924 – 28 January 1976) was a Belgian poet, filmmaker, and visual artist with a highly literate and often witty approach to creating art works. In 1943-1951 he was a member of a Communist party. Life and career ...

(1924–1976), artist * Fernand Brouez (1861–1900), editor of '' La Société Nouvelle'' *

Charles De Coster Charles-Theodore-Henri De Coster (20 August 1827 – 7 May 1879) was a Belgian novelist whose efforts laid the basis for a native Belgian literature. Early life and education He was born in Munich; his father, Augustin De Coster, was a nati ...

(1827–1879), novelist *

Neel Doff Cornelia Hubertina "Neel" Doff ( Buggenum, Netherlands, 27 January 1858 – Ixelles, Belgium, 14 July 1942) was an author of Dutch origin living and working in Belgium and mainly writing in French. She is one of the most important contributors ...

(1858–1942), artists' model and writer *

Jean Isaac Effront Jean may refer to: People * Jean (female given name) * Jean (male given name) * Jean (surname) Fictional characters * Jean Grey, a Marvel Comics character * Jean Valjean, fictional character in novel ''Les Misérables'' and its adaptations * J ...

(1856–1931), inventor * Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez (1936–2015), Nigerian diplomat and business tycoon * Édouard Louis Geerts (1846–1889), sculptor, whose tomb was designed by the architect

Victor Horta Victor Pierre Horta (; Victor, Baron Horta after 1932; 6 January 1861 – 8 September 1947) was a Belgian architect and designer, and one of the founders of the Art Nouveau movement. His Hôtel Tassel in Brussels, built in 1892–93, is often ...

and the sculptor

Charles van der Stappen Charles van der Stappen (also Karl van der Stappen; 19 September 1843 – 21 October 1910), was a Belgian sculptor, born in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode. Life Educated at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (1859–1868), van der Stappen' ...

''Victor Horta'', David Dernie and Alastair Carew-Cox, p. 211 * Lucette Heuseux (1913–2010), painter *

(1861–1947), architect *

Louis Hymans Louis Hymans (1829—1884) was a Belgian writer, lecturer and politician. Life Hymans was born in Rotterdam on 3 May 1829.Charles Pergameni, "Hymans (Louis)", in ''Biographie Nationale de Belgique''vol. 29(Brussels, 1956), 708-711. In the year of ...

(1829–1884), journalist and politician *

Paul Hymans Paul Louis Adrien Henri Hymans (23 March 1865 – 8 March 1941), was a Belgian politician associated with the Liberal Party. He was the second president of the League of Nations and served again as its president in 1932–1933. Life Hymans was ...

(1865–1941),

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Joseph Jacquet Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

(1857–1917), army general during

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Sylvain de Jong Sylvain is the French form of Silvanus. It may refer to: People *Sylvain Archambault, Canadian director * Sylvain Bied (1965–2011), French footballer and manager * Sylvain Cappell (born 1946), American mathematician * Sylvain Chavanel (born 19 ...

(1868–1928, maker of the luxury

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automobile * Frédéric de La Hault (1860–1903), developed an 1885 motorised tricycle *

Camille Lemonnier Antoine Louis Camille Lemonnier (24 March 1844 – 13 June 1913) was a Belgian writer, poet and journalist. He was a member of the Symbolist ''La Jeune Belgique'' group, but his best known works are realist. His first work was ''Salon de Bruxelle ...

(1844–1913), writer *

Constantin Meunier Constantin Meunier (12 April 1831 – 4 April 1905) was a Belgian painter and sculptor. He made an important contribution to the development of modern art by elevating the image of the industrial worker, docker and miner to an icon of mode ...

(1831–1905), painter and sculptor * Jean-Baptiste Moëns (1833–1908),

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* Frederic Neuhaus (1846–1912), pharmacist, inventor of chocolate pralines * Paul Saintenoy (1862–1952), architect *

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(1845–1947), architect *

Ernest Solvay Ernest Gaston Joseph Solvay (; 16 April 1838 – 26 May 1922) was a Belgian chemist, industrialist and philanthropist. Born in Rebecq, he was prevented by his acute pleurisy from going to university. He worked in his uncle's chemical factor ...

(1838–1922), chemist and industrialist, tomb designed by

Carl Sternheim Carl Sternheim (born William Adolph Carl Francke; 1 April 1878 – 3 November 1942) was a German playwright and short story writer. One of the major exponents of German Expressionism, he especially satirized the moral sensibilities of the emergi ...

(1878–1942), German writer * Marc Van Bever (1974–2010), film producer * Joseph Wieniawski (1837–1912), composer *

Antoine Wiertz Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806 – 18 June 1865) was a Belgian painter, sculptor, lithographer and art writer. He is known for his religious, historical, and allegorical works and portraits. He was an eccentric figure who originally was ...

(1806–1865), painter *

Eugène Ysaÿe Eugène-Auguste Ysaÿe (; 16 July 185812 May 1931) was a Belgian virtuoso violinist, composer, and conductor. He was regarded as "The King of the Violin", or, as Nathan Milstein put it, the "tsar". Legend of the Ysaÿe violin Eugène Ysaÿe ...

(1858–1931), violinist

War graves

In the Field of Honour in Block A are buried

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soldiers from Belgium, France, Italy, Russia and Great Britain (twelve identified soldiers), who died mainly as prisoners of war.
CWGC Cemetery Report. British details obtained from casualty record.

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Notable interments

War graves

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