Live
Virtual Lecture
Luxembourg
Immigration to Southern Brazil
with
Carlo
Krieger and Jean Ensch
Luxembourg
Wednesday,
February 28, 2024
12:00
PM/noon Central
Standard Time (Chicago Time)
Free and open to
the public, but registration is required.
Email
Antje Petty (
Links will be sent
on February 27, 2024.
In
the mid-1820s, the newly independent country of Brazil invited
Europeans to settle its southern lands and provide a bulwark
along the borders to Argentina and Paraguay. These efforts
coincided with a period of economic hardship in the rural
regions of Luxembourg and neighboring German lands. Fueled by
the propaganda of emigration agents, it did not take long for
“Brazil fever” to set in. In 1828, after
a harrowing migration experience,
the first thousand Luxembourgers arrived in Brazil — a
generation before the first Luxembourg settlement in the US
Midwest. Since then, immigration to Brazil has continued
quietly and steadily. Today 30,000 – 50,000 Brazilians are
estimated to have Luxembourg ancestry.
In
this presentation, Carlo Krieger and Jean Ensch will focus on
the Luxembourg presence in southern Brazil today and the
history of Luxembourg immigration to the region, while drawing
comparisons to the experiences of Luxembourg settlers and
their descendants in the United States.
. 
Carlo
Krieger
holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology and is a retired
Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg who had his final
posting in Brasilia, Brazil. He serves on the Board of
Directors of the Luxembourg American Cultural Society &
Center in Belgium, Wisconsin, and as President of its Roots
and Leaves Museum.
Jean
Ensch is President of the Institut Grand Ducal (Section
of linguistics, ethnology, and onomastics), a founding member
of the Luxembourg Genealogical Society (ALGH), and a member of
the Board of Directors of the Luxembourg American Cultural
Society & Center in Belgium, Wisconsin.
For
more information click
HERE or contact Antje Petty (
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