Vyšehrad Cemetery

Vyšehrad cemetery
Vyšehrad cemetery Arcade, Prague.
Details
Established	1869
Country	Czech Republic
Coordinates	50°03′54″N 14°25′04″E
Type	Public
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Basilica of St Peter and St Paul, Eastern (rear) view, with a section of the cemetery, Prague.

Established in 1869 on the grounds of Vyšehrad Castle in Prague, Czech Republic, the Vyšehrad Cemetery (Czech: Vyšehradský hřbitov) is the final resting place of many composers, artists, sculptors, writers, and those from the world of science and politics. The centerpiece of the cemetery is the Slavín tomb designed by Antonín Wiehl, a large and notable tomb located within Vyšehrad cemetery.

Notable interments

Some of the famous Czechs interred here:

• Zdeněk Miler (1921-2011), animator
• Mikoláš Aleš (1852–1913), painter
• Karel Ančerl (1908–1973), conductor of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Toronto Symphony Orchestra
• Josef Bican (1913–2001), footballer
• Josef Čapek (1887–1945), painter and writer (cenotaph)
• Karel Čapek (1890–1938), writer
• Antonin Chittussi (1847–1891), painter
• Emmy Destinn (Ema Destinnová, 1878–1930), opera singer
• Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904), composer
• Ludmila Dvořáková (1923–2015) opera singer
• Petr Eben (1929–2007), composer and organist
• Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900), composer
• Vlastimil Fišar (1926–1991), composer
• Eduard Haken (1910–1996), operatic bass
• Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890–1967), Nobel prize winning founder of polarography
• Milada Horáková (1901–1950), doctor, victim of 1950s Czechoslovak communist party show trials (cenotaph)
• František Hrubín (1910–1971), writer and poet, friend of Jaroslav Seifert
• Ivan Jandl (1937–1987), actor
• Rafael Kubelík (1914–1996), conductor and composer
• Vilém Kurz (1872–1945), pianist and piano teacher
• Karel Hynek Mácha (1810–1836), romantic poet
• Hana Mašková (1949–1972), figure skater
• Waldemar Matuška (1932–2009), singer and actor
• Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939), artist and designer
• Josef Václav Myslbek (1848–1922), sculptor
• Jan Neruda (1834–1891), poet and writer
• Božena Němcová (1820–1862), writer, author of the novel Babička ("The Grandmother")
• Zdeněk Nejedlý (1878–1962), musicologist, critic, and Communist politician
• František Ondříček (1857–1922), violinist and composer
• Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), composer and conductor of the National Theater
• Zdenka Procházková 1926–2021, actress
• Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787–1869), anatomist and physiologist, known for the Purkinje effect and Purkinje cells
• Jana Rybářová (1936–1957), actress
• Ladislav Šaloun (1870–1946), Art Nouveau sculptor
• Olga Scheinpflugová (1902–1968), actress and wife of Karel Čapek
• Václav Smetáček (1906–1998), composer and oboist
• Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer
• Pavel Štěpán (1925–1998), pianist and piano teacher
• Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová (1899–1975), pianist and piano teacher
• Josef Suk (1929–2011), violinist and grandson of composer Josef Suk
• Max Švabinský (1873–1962), painter
• Vladislav Vančura (1891–1942), avant-garde writer and filmmaker
• Helena Zmatlíková (1923–2005), illustrator

See also

• List of burial places of classical musicians

External links

• Longer list of famous people buried there
• Transcripts of Headstones
• Vyšehrad Cemetery at Find a Grave