Ixelles Cemetery

The Ixelles Cemetery (French: Cimetière d'Ixelles, Dutch: De Elsense begraafplaats), located in Ixelles in the southern part of Brussels, is one of major cemeteries in Belgium.

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French - Dutch - Ixelles - Brussels - Cemeteries - Belgium

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The Ixelles Cemetery also refers to a neighbourhood with a lot of bars and restaurants for students, North of the actual cemetery. It is indeed located between the two main campus of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Solbosch and La Plaine).

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Neighbourhood - Bars - Restaurant - Campus - Université Libre de Bruxelles

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Personalities buried here include:

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• Anna Boch (1848-1936), painter
• Jules Bordet (1870-1961), Nobel Prize in medicine
• Georges Boulanger (1837-1891), French revolutionary
• Marcel Broodhaers (1924-1976), artist
• Jean Isaac Effront (1856-1931), inventor
• Victor Horta (1861-1947), architect
• Louis Hymans (1829-1884), journalist and politician
• Paul Hymans (1865-1941), statesman
• Constantin Meunier (1831-1905), painter and sculptor
• Jean-Baptiste Moens (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
 
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