Vyšehrad Cemetery

Vyšehrad cemetery
Vyšehrad cemetery
	Vyšehrad cemetery Arcade, Prague.
Details
Established	1869
Country	Czech Republic
Type	Public

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:

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
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
Otakar Ostrčil (1879–1935), composer and conductor of the National Theater
Jan Evangelista Purkyně (1787-1869), anatomist and physiologist, known for the Purkinje effect and Purkinje cells
Ladislav Šaloun (1870–1946), Art Nouveau sculptor
Olga Scheinpflugová (1902–1968), actress and wife of Karel Čapek
Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884), composer
Pavel Štěpán (1925–1998), pianist and piano teacher
Ilona Štěpánová-Kurzová (1899–1975), pianist and piano teacher
Max Švabinský (1873–1962), painter