Tombstone of Frederic Eichhoff and Hermina Mizerska, Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris (France), photo prof. Sławomir Górzyński, 2025 r.
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Tombstone of Frederic Eichhoff and Hermina Mizerska

Paris | France

Père-Lachaise Cemetery

ID: NGR-019331-P/194067

Tombstone of Frederic Eichhoff and Hermina Mizerska

Paris | France
Père-Lachaise Cemetery

On pedestal stepped, flat slab with plastic cross, on slab front a stone box jardiniere on base, at head on high base, high stele widened towards top, ending in triangle with facing, topped with low urn on base; remains of fence, upturned torch-shaped posts. Inscriptions on stele (1) and on cross lying on slab (2).

Inscription:

1. FAMILIE EICHHOFF / ICI REPOSENT: / FRÉDÉRIC GUSTAVE EICHHOFF. / CHEVALIER DE LA LEGION D’HONNEUR, / SAVANT, LINGUISTE DISTINGUÉ, / INSPECTEUR D’ACADÉMIE. / MEMBRE CORRESPONDANT DE INSTITUT. / DÉCÉDÉ À PARIS, LE 10 MAI 1875, / DANS SA 76ÉME ANNÉE. / ---- / HERMINIE CONSTANCE MIZERSKY, / SA VEUVE, / DÉCÉDÉE LE 27 7BRE1895, / DANS SA 76ÉME ANNÉE. / DÉLIVRÉE DE SES AFFLICTIONS / DANS LE SEIN DE DIEU. AMEN. / ---- //.
2. Heureux ceux qui pro[...]ent la paix / car ils seront [...] les enfants de Dieu / St Marc chap V . IX //.

Tombstone location:

Sector number 53 Tomb number 174

Dimensions:

247 x 100 x 200 cm

Additional dimensions:

cross: 97 x 61 cm

Materials:

marble, limestone, cast iron, stone

Additional Information about materials:

stone (jardiniera), white marble (cross on panel), cast iron (fence)

Ceator's signature:

[...]ouvet Ent //.

Additional information:

concession no: C. A P. No 2181, année 1875

the concession was purchased on 10 May 1875 for a period of 100 years by Ernest Bourdon, resident at 26 rue de Sévigné

location: div. 53, row 1 ch. du Bastion, gr. 16 av. E. Delacroix

inscription (2) is a fragment of the Sermon on the Mount, Gospel according to Saint Matthew

Frédéric Gustave Eichhoff, born on 17 August 1799 in Le Havre, son of Vichemann Eichhoff, merchant, and Marie Salomé, née Barthel (or Burthel), linguist and philologist, professor of the faculty of literature in Paris, chevalier of the Legion of Honour from 1837.

Hermina Constance Mizerska, born at Kachaou [?] in Hungary, wife of Frédéric Gustave Eichhoff; married on 4 December 1841 in the former 7th arrondissement of Paris. From this marriage, daughter Marie Juliette Mathilde, born 10 December 1849 in Lyon, married Ernest Bourdon. She lived in the 16th arrondissement and died on 24 September 1895 in Paris at 16 rue Louis David. She was buried on 30 September 1895 at Père-Lachaise Cemetery