Vår Frelsers gravlund
Our Saviour's Orthodox Church, formerly the chapel
Southern section
Vår Frelsers gravlund ("our saviour's cemetery") is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It 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 since 1952. The cemetery includes five sections, including Æreslunden, Norway's main honorary burial ground, and the western, southern, eastern and northern sections.
Notable interments
The grave of Edvard Munch
The grave of Henrik Ibsen
- Johan Diederich Behrens, singing teacher and choral conductor
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, writer
- Peder Bjørnson, priest and father of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Christian Birch-Reichenwald, politician
- 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
- Thomas Fearnley, painter
- Carl Gustav Fleischer, general
- Francis Hagerup, professor, diplomat and politician
- C. J. Hambro, journalist, author and politician
- Aasta Hansteen, painter and early feminist
- Viggo Hansteen, lawyer
- Henrik Ibsen, playwright
- Agnes Mowinckel, actress and theatre director
- Edvard Munch, painter
- Harald Nørregaard, lawyer, art collector and Chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association
- 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
- Evald Rygh, banker and politician
- Christian Homann Schweigaard, lawyer and politician
- Christian August Selmer, politician
- 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
- Oscar Torp, politician
- Henrik Wergeland, writer
- Rolf Wickstrøm, labour activist
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Coordinates: 59°55′16″N 10°44′40″E / 59.92111°N 10.74444°E
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