title: Hajongard cemetery
text: # 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 approximately 14 hectares (35 acres).
  
  ## Notable interments
  
  * Ion Agârbiceanu (1882–1963), writer, journalist, politician, academician and archpriest
  * János Apáczai Csere (1625–1659), humanist scholar
  * Gheorghe Avramescu (1884–1945), Lieutenant General during World War II
  * Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950), writer, illustrator, scenographer and foreign minister of Hungary
  * Matei Boilă (1926–2015), politician and priest
  * Sámuel Brassai (1797–1897), linguist and teacher
  * Nicolae Bretan (1887–1968), opera composer, baritone, conductor, and music critic
  * Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973), historian, archaeologist, professor, and communist politician
  * Aurel Ciupe (1900–1985), painter
  * Doina Cornea (1929–2018), human rights activist and French language professor
  * Gheorghe Dima [ro] (1847–1925), composer, conductor, and teacher
  * Iuliu Hațieganu (1885–1959), physician
  * Jenő Janovics (1872–1945), actor, scenarist, and director
  * Aureliu Manea (1945–2014), theatre director, actor, and writer
  * Adrian Marino [ro] (1921–2005), 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
  * Tiberiu Popoviciu (1906–1975), mathematician
  * Emil Racoviță (1868–1947), savant, explorer, and founder of biospeleology
  * Raluca Ripan (1894–1972), chemist
  