Cemetery of Our Saviour

Vår Frelsers Gravlund

Details
Established	1808
Location	Gamle Aker, Oslo
Country	Norway
Coordinates	59°55′16″N 10°44′40″E / 59.92111°N 10.74444°E / 59.92111; 10.74444
Find a Grave	Vår Frelsers Gravlund

The Cemetery of Our Saviour (Norwegian: Vår Frelsers gravlund) is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars. Its grounds were extended in 1911. The cemetery has been full and thus closed for new graves since 1952, with interment only being allowed in existing family graves. The cemetery includes five sections, including Æreslunden, Norway's main honorary burial ground, and the western, southern, eastern and northern sections. The Cemetery of Our Saviour became the preferred cemetery of bourgeois and other upper-class families. It has many grand tombstones and is the most famous cemetery in Norway.

Notable interments

Ari Behn, writer
Eivind Astrup, Arctic explorer
Johan Diederich Behrens, singing teacher and choral conductor
Christian Birch-Reichenwald, politician
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer
Peder Bjørnson, priest and father of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
Otto Albert Blehr, Prime Minister of Norway
Carsten Borchgrevink, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and leader of the Southern Cross Expedition
Jens Bratlie, politician
Anne Brown, soprano singer and actress
Olaf Bull, poet
Camilla Collett, writer
Niels Christian Ditleff, diplomat
Frederik Due, military officer and statesman
Birger Eriksen, army officer
Edward Evans, Royal Navy officer and member of the Terra Nova Expedition
Thomas Fearnley, painter
Carl Gustav Fleischer, general
Hans Gude, painter
Francis Hagerup, professor, diplomat and politician
C. J. Hambro, journalist, author and politician
Aasta Hansteen, painter and early feminist
Viggo Hansteen, lawyer
Knut Haukelid, World War II commando
Henrik Ibsen, playwright
Lillebil Ibsen, dancer and actress
Tancred Ibsen, director, screenwriter, World War I pilot
Gina Krog, suffragist and activist
Christian Krohg, artist and author

Bjørg Lødøen, painter
Sophus Lie, mathematician^{[citation needed]}
Jorgen Gunnarsson Lovland, Prime Minister of Norway
Agnes Mowinckel, actress and theatre director
Edvard Munch, painter
Rikard Nordraak, composer
Harald Nørregaard, lawyer, art collector and Chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association
Sigurd Odland, theologian
Ole Olsen, musician
Christopher Tostrup Paus, count, papal chamberlain and philanthropist
Bernhard Pauss, theologian and educator
Henriette Pauss, teacher, editor, humanitarian and missionary leader
Alf Prøysen, writer and musician
Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz, government minister
Hedevig Rosing , author, educator, school founder; first woman to teach in Copenhagen's public schools
Evald Rygh, banker and politician
Kirsten Sand, architect
Christian Homann Schweigaard, lawyer and politician
Christian August Selmer, politician
Michael Skjelderup, first Professor of Medicine at the University of Christiania
Emil Stang, jurist and politician
Frederik Stang, lawyer, public servant, and politician
Johannes Steen, politician
Johan Sverdrup, liberal politician and first Prime Minister of Norway
Jan Peter Syse, Prime Minister of Norway
Marcus Thrane, author, journalist, and the leader of the first labour movement in Norway
Oscar Torp, politician
Grete Waitz, world champion marathon runner
Henrik Wergeland, writer
Rolf Wickstrøm, labour activist
Gisken Wildenvey, writer