[1] When the German professor of law Julius Frank died on 19 June 1841, his students decided to bury him within the faculty.

The cemetery was closed after only a few burials, because the land near São Caetano Road had to make way for a wider Tiradentes Avenue.

[2] In answer to the closure of the Foreigner's Cemetery, Lutherans, Anglicans and some Presbyterians founded[when?]

the Associação Cemitério dos Protestantes ("Association of the Cemetery of the Protestants") to create a new burial site.

In accordance with Carl Rath [pt]'s plans, an administration building and chapel were built.