200 years of German-speaking immigration to Brazil

Blog entry from 01/27/2025

Source: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

As a young man, Albert Richard Dietze (1838-1906) moved to Brazil from what is now Saxony-Anhalt and was one of more than 220,000 German-speaking people who settled in Latin America`s largest country from the 19th century onwards. He ran a photo studio and became a chronicler of the lives of immigrants, their everyday lives and their new surroundings.

2024 marked the 200th anniversary of the beginning of this migration story at a time of intense reshaping of bilateral relations and global…

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