Vyšehrad Cemetery

Cemetery in Prague, Czech Republic

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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^[1]^: #3716
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^[1]^: #9155
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

References

^ ^a ^b Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Listing by entry #". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.