Hajongard cemetery

Hajongard cemetery (officially Central Cemetery, in Hungarian Házsongárdi temető, from German Hasengarten), on Avram Iancu Street, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, founded in the sixteenth century. It is one of the most picturesque sights of the city. It covers an area of ca. 14 hectares.

Bethlen family chapel at Hajongard cemetery

Notable interments

• Ion Agârbiceanu (1882 – 1963), writer, journalist, politician, academician and archpriest
• Gheorghe Avramescu, Lieutenant General during World War II
• Miklós Bánffy (1873 – 1950), writer, illustrator, scenographer and foreign minister of Hungary
• Sámuel Brassai (1797 – 1897), linguist and teacher
• János Apáczai Csere (1625 – 1659), humanist scholar
• Constantin Daicoviciu, historian, archaeologist, professor and communist politician
• Gheorghe Dima, composer, conductor and teacher
• Iuliu Hațieganu, physician
• Jenő Janovics (1872 – 1945), actor, scenarist and director
• Adrian Marino, essayist, critic, historian and literary theorist
• Lajos Martin (1827 – 1897), mathematician and engineer
• Imre Mikó (1805 – 1876), governor of Transylvania
• John Paget (1808 – 1892), English agriculturist and author on Hungary
• Emil Racoviță, savant, explorer and founder of biospeleology