The Cemetery of Our Saviour () is a cemetery in

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, 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

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. 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 Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist, best known for his marriage to Princess Märtha Louise of Norway from 2002 to 2017. He held no title or special status, an ...

, writer *

Eivind Astrup Eivind Astrup (; 17 September 1871 – 27 December 1895) was a Norwegian explorer and writer. Astrup participated in Robert Peary's Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–92, expedition to Greenland in 1891–92 and mapped northern Greenland. ...

, Arctic explorer * Johan Diederich Behrens, singing teacher and choral conductor *

Christian Birch-Reichenwald Christian Birch-Reichenwald (4 January 1814 – 8 July 1891) was a Norwegian jurist and politician who served as mayor of Oslo, Norway. He was born at Blaker in Akershus, Norway. He was the son of to Paul Hansen Birch and Anna Catharina Ho ...

, politician *

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson ( , ; 8 December 1832 – 26 April 1910) was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature "as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished ...

, writer * Peder Bjørnson, priest and father of

* Otto Albert Blehr, Prime Minister of Norway *

Carsten Borchgrevink Carsten Egeberg Borchgrevink (1 December 186421 April 1934) was a Norwegian polar explorer and a pioneer of Antarctic travel. He inspired Sir Robert Falcon Scott, Sir Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and others associated with the Heroic Age ...

, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and leader of the Southern Cross Expedition * Jens Bratlie, politician *

Anne Brown Anne Brown (August 9, 1912March 13, 2009) was an American lyric soprano for whom George Gershwin rewrote the part of "Bess" into a leading role in the original production of his opera ''Porgy and Bess'' in 1935. She was also a radio and concert ...

, soprano singer and actress *

Olaf Bull Olaf Jacob Martin Luther Breda Bull (10 November 1883 – 29 June 1933 ) was a Norwegian poet. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature six times. Biography Olaf Bull was born in Kristiania (now Oslo), Norway. His parents were autho ...

, poet * Camilla Collett, writer * Niels Christian Ditleff, diplomat *

Frederik Due Frederik Gottschalck Haxthausen Due (14 April 1796 – 16 October 1873) was a Norwegian military officer and statesman. Born in Trondheim, he entered the military at an early age, and took part in the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814. After the tw ...

, military officer and statesman *

Birger Eriksen Birger Kristian Eriksen (17 November 1875 – 16 July 1958) was a Norway, Norwegian military officer (with the rank of Military ranks and insignia of Norway, Oberst) who was instrumental in stopping the first wave of ''Gruppe 5'' of the Germ ...

, army officer * Edward Evans,

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officer and member of the

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* Thomas Fearnley, painter * Carl Gustav Fleischer, general *

Hans Gude Hans Fredrik Gude (March 13, 1825August 17, 1903) was a Norwegian romanticist painter and is considered along with Johan Christian Dahl to be one of Norway's foremost landscape painters. He has been called a mainstay of Norwegian National Ro ...

, painter * Francis Hagerup, professor, diplomat and politician * C. J. Hambro, journalist, author and politician * Aasta Hansteen, painter and early feminist *

Viggo Hansteen Harald Viggo Hansteen (13 September 1900 – 10 September 1941) was a Norway, Norwegian lawyer. He was executed during the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany. Biography Harald Viggo Hansteen was born in Oslo, Norway. As a student he was ...

, lawyer *

Knut Haukelid Knut Haukelid (May 17, 1911 – March 8, 1994) was a Norwegian military officer. He was a Norwegian resistance movement soldier during World War II, most notable for participating in the Norwegian heavy water sabotage. Early life Knut Anders ...

, World War II commando *

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright, poet and actor. Ibsen is considered the world's pre-eminent dramatist of the 19th century and is often referred to as "the father of modern drama." He pioneered ...

, playwright * Lillebil Ibsen, dancer and actress *

Tancred Ibsen Tancred Ibsen (11 July 1893 – 4 December 1978) was a Norwegian military officer, aviator, film director and screenwriter. Background Ibsen was the son of Sigurd Ibsen and Bergljot Bjørnson. He was the grandson of both Henrik Ibsen and Nobel ...

, director, screenwriter, World War I pilot * Gina Krog, suffragist and activist *

Christian Krohg Christian Krohg (13 August 1852 – 16 October 1925) was a Norwegian naturalist painter, illustrator, author and journalist. Krohg was inspired by the realism art movement and often chose motifs from everyday life. He was the director and s ...

, artist and author * Bjørg Lødøen, painter *

Sophus Lie Marius Sophus Lie ( ; ; 17 December 1842 – 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations. He also made substantial cont ...

, mathematician * Jorgen Gunnarsson Lovland, Prime Minister of Norway * Agnes Mowinckel, actress and theatre director *

Edvard Munch Edvard Munch ( ; ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work ''The Scream'' has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inher ...

, painter *

Rikard Nordraak Rikard Nordraak (12 June 1842 – 20 March 1866) was a Norway, Norwegian composer. He is best known as the composer of the Norwegian national anthem, "Ja, vi elsker dette landet". Biography Rikard Nordraak was born and grew up in Oslo, Norway. Hi ...

, 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 Bernhard Cathrinus Pauss (6 April 1839 – 9 November 1907) was a Norwegian theologian, educator, author, and missionary leader, known for his foundational role in advancing women's education in Norway. He was headmaster and owner of Hartvig Nis ...

, theologian and educator * Henriette Pauss, teacher, editor, humanitarian and missionary leader *

Alf Prøysen Alf Prøysen () (23 July 1914 – 23 November 1970) was a Norwegian author, poet, playwright, songwriter and musician. Prøysen was one of the most important Norwegian cultural personalities in the second half of the 20th century. He work ...

, writer and musician *

Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz (25 January 176211 May 1838) was a Norwegian Government Minister and Member of Parliament. Biography Marcus Gjøe Rosenkrantz was born at Vigvoll, Tveit near Kristiansand, Norway. His father, Otto Christian 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 Frederik Stang (4 March 1808 – 8 June 1884) was a Norwegian lawyer, public servant, and politician who served as Norway's first List of Norwegian Prime Ministers, prime minister in Christiana. Stang was born on the Nordre Rostad farm at Stokk ...

, 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 Grete Waitz (, 1 October 195319 April 2011) was a Norwegian marathon runner and former world record holder. In 1979, at the New York City Marathon, she became the first woman in history to run the marathon in under two and a half hours. Waitz ...

, world champion marathon runner *

Henrik Wergeland Henrik Arnold Thaulow Wergeland (17 June 1808 – 12 July 1845) was a Norwegian writer, most celebrated for his poetry but also a prolific playwright, polemicist, historian, and linguist. He is often described as a leading pioneer in the develop ...

, writer * Rolf Wickstrøm, labour activist * Gisken Wildenvey, writer

Gallery

File:Munch grave 1.JPG, The grave of

File:Ibsen grave 5.JPG, The grave of

File:VFG SouthernSection01.JPG, Southern section File:Vår Frelsers gravlund i Oslo, Norway (2022.11.01).jpg, Vår Frelsers gravlund in the autumn

References

External links

Vår Frelsers gravlund
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Var Frelsers Gravlund Cemeteries in Norway Buildings and structures in Oslo 1808 establishments in Norway Cemeteries in Oslo