Austrian Brazilians

Austrian Brazilians
Austro-brasileiro

Austrian descendants in São Paulo.
Total population
Unknown
Regions with significant populations
Mainly Santa Catarina, São Paulo and Minas Gerais.
Languages
Predominantly Portuguese
Austro-Bavarian, German, Yiddish[1]
Religion
Christianity (Mainly Roman Catholicism), Protestantism, Judaism[2] and others
Related ethnic groups
Other White Brazilians, especially German Brazilians

Austrian Brazilians (Portuguese: Austro-brasileiro, Austríaco brasileiro) refers to Brazilians of full, partial, or predominantly Austrian ancestry, or Austrian-born people residing in Brazil. Brazil is home to the second largest German-Austrian population outside their respective nations, after the United States. German is the second most spoken language in the country.[3][4] The author Stefan Zweig who wrote about Brazil, and the Habsburg-Lorraine Maria Leopoldina of Austria, Empress consort of Brazil, are among the most prominent Austrians to settle in Brazil.

History

Some Austrian Jews fled to Brazil to flee Nazism.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ Perego, Simon (2019). "Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present". Transatlantic Cultures.
  2. ^ "Assistance to Holocaust Survivors from Austria in Brazil ... - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism".
  3. ^ "Brazil". Ethnologue.
  4. ^ "Hunsrik". Ethnologue.
  5. ^ Schpun, Mônica Raisa (30 April 2025). Aracy de Carvalho and Jewish Rescue from 1930s Germany. Springer. ISBN 978-3-031-84104-0.
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