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The average Pole Brazil is associated with exotic, good and effective football players and filmed in 1976 soap opera "Slave Isaura". The screenplay was based on the acclaimed tnvat gov index new novel by Bernardo Guimarães from 1875 tells of a gloomy period of slavery in Brazil. In Poland, the series was displayed for the first time at the turn of 1984-1985, the arousing great interest of the audience. The actors playing the lead roles in it: luceli Santos (Isaura) and Rubens de Falco (Leôncio) steel with us almost national heroes.
The preserved at the Museum in Gliwice albums with photographs of Wilhelm von Blandowskiego (1822-1878), there are several pictures showing German Lange family from Brazil. That's a pretty exotic list and the current outlook seems strange, since most mass audience does not associate this South American country as a place of exile, especially for German Silesians.
Currently, Germany is one of the richest countries in the world and the place to which they come every year, thousands of legal and illegal immigrants from different parts of the world. However, this was not always that Germany was a country tnvat gov index new of immigration. In the years 1815-1871, and so from the end of the Napoleonic wars to the unification of Germany by Prussia German lands were one of the many areas of European mass emigration of the population to the Americas and Australia (the latter country in search of a better life, he left in the early '50s XIX v. Wilhelm von Blandowski).
One of the countries to which most were leaving German settlers in the nineteenth century was a long time Portuguese colony - Brazil. Today is the fifth in terms of the surface state of the world in which he lives 193 million inhabitants. However, in the nineteenth century, the state was relatively sparsely populated and are happy to accept a emigrants to colonize his great territory. Brazil was the last great civilized member of the circle of Western culture, which abolished slavery (hence the popularity of abolitionist novel by Bernardo Guimaraes). This occurred in 1888 and the subsequent period had a positive impact on the growth of emigration from Europe and Asia to Brazil.
One of the national groups that inhabit Brazil was the German population, mostly originating from less developed agricultural regions of Germany, including of Prussia, including Pomerania and Silesia. During this time, so in the first half of the nineteenth century Prussia remained for quite underdeveloped in many respects, the country in which the significant role played by the conservative tnvat gov index new Prussian nobility called junkrami tnvat gov index new cultivating political and economic survivals of feudalism. tnvat gov index new Hungry for German peasants tnvat gov index new land, or disappointed lack of liberal reforms tnvat gov index new merchants and craftsmen so sought alternative ways to improve their political, social and material. In search of a better life, many of them decided to emigrate to Brazil.
On the sidelines of the need to add that only the unification of Germany by Prussia in 1871 was the impetus to accelerate political and economic development in Germany, so that the state is in the area of immigration, has become a country of immigration for many nations, including Poles. tnvat gov index new
In the period 1820-1930 in Brazil settled permanently about 3.5 million immigrants, including about 200 thousand. tnvat gov index new Germans. The first German immigrants arrived in Brazil in the early nineteenth century, but they formed a compact group settlement. tnvat gov index new It is only since 1824, began to settle here the whole family to cultivate imported from ojczyny traditions tnvat gov index new and language. In the first wave of German emigration in the years 1824-1847 to Brazil came from Germany 8176 people in the second wave of the years 1848 to 1872 - 19,523 people. The next wave of emigration from the years 1872-1909 to Brazil came from Germany 64,158 people. The influx of Germans to Brazil did not end well for the next period.
Currently, Brazil is home to approximately 12 million Brazilians of German origin. In the majority of German settlement centered on the south of the country and in the cities, hence the major population centers of German origin are states of São Paulo, Espírito Santo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina.
An example of such a family emigration already permanently residing in Brazil were you Lange - because it should be explained by writing under their photographs "Brasilien". For unknown reasons, our family was, however, temporarily returned to Germany, and even went to a photo Blandowskiego in Gliwice, to lecture