Czech Brazilian
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 Czech Brazilian  Tcheco Brasileiro |
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| Total population |
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5,000 Czech Brazilians[1] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| Brazil:
Mainly Southeastern and Southern Brazil |
| Languages |
| Predominantly Portuguese. Some also speak Czech |
| Religions |
| Predominantly Roman Catholic |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Other White Brazilian, Czech people |
Czech Brazilians refer to Brazilians of Czech descent who were born in or who trace their ancestry to the territory of the historic Czech lands or succession states, now known as the Czech Republic, and are residents and/or citizens of Brazil.
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[edit] Czech people in Brazil
Although Czech jesuits such as Valentin Stansel had been working in Brazil since the 19th Century, the first Czech immigrants arrived in 1823. Among these early immigrants was Jan Nepomuk Kubíček, a Catholic carpenter from Trebon and one of the great-grandfathers of Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira, the 24th President of Brazil (from 1956 to 1961).[2][3]
In the 20th Century there were three large waves of Czechs who moved to Brazil: in the 1930's, after the Communist takeover (1948) and after the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops (1968). Most of those immigrants settled down in Southern Brazil. [4]
Though Czechs correspond to a small proportion of all immigrants who landed in Brazil, the Czech immigration is significant if counted in absolute numbers. An evidence of such representativeness is that a search in the 2007 phone book of São Paulo reveals that all the 10 commonest Czech male surnames can be found among the inhabitants of the mentioned Brazilian city.[5][6]
[edit] Southern Brazil
More or less influence of the Czech immigration can be noticed in the three states of Southern Brazil (Santa Catarina, Paraná, and Rio Grande do Sul). In such states, the Czechs arrived since the 19th Century and were often a minority in areas predominantly settled by Germans or Poles.[7][8]
In Santa Catarina, the Czech immigrants occupied the regions of Vale do Itajaí[9] and Northern parts of the state, e.g. Joinville,[10] São Bento do Sul[11] [12] and Mafra.[13]
In Rio Grande do Sul, most Czechs settled down in the Serra Gaúcha (notably in the town of Nova Petrópolis), the North Coast, the area of Missões and the Central Lowlands.[14]
In Paraná, the Czech immigration is noticeable in the Northern areas, e.g. Rolândia and Londrina, where in 1932-1940's Czechs and Poles used to dispute the available lands for coffee cultivation, particularly in the rural district of Warta (Northern Londrina).[15][16]
[edit] Central-Western Brazil
In Central-Western Brazil the Czech immigrants arrived mostly in the 1940-1950's leaded by the entrepreneur Jan Antonín Baťa, a Czech shoe manufacturer who left Czechoslovakia after the Nazi occupation of the Sudetenland. [6]
The colonization of the part of the Southeastern region of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul was made possible thanks to the Companhia Viação São Paulo-Mato Grosso (São Paulo-Mato Grosso Transport Company) owned by Baťa and managed by another Czech immigrant, Vladimir Kubik.
[edit] Trivia
- Nova Petrópolis (in Southern Brazil) is a sister town of Jablonec nad Nisou. [7]
- Bataipora and Bataguassu are both towns in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul which were settled by Czech immigrants leaded by Jan Antonín Baťa. [8]
- Fred Figner, a Czech immigrant established in Rio de Janeiro was a pioneer in phonograph cylinders and the owner of the first commercial recording company in Brazil. His enterprise is considered the first one to produce and sell recorded Brazilian popular music. [9]
- Tom Hintnaus, a Brazilian-born Czech-American model and pole vaulting athlete, was classified in the US trials for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, but the United States boycotted such event. [10]
- In the Hospedaria de Campo Limpo (a lodge for foreign immigrants in the state of São Paulo), 273 Czechs arrived between 1947 and 1949 as war dislocated people. That corresponds to 2,41% of the total amount of war dislocated people that arrived in such lodge in that period.[17]
- Santo Antônio do Capivari, a town in the state of Rio de Janeiro, had its name changed to Lídice in honour to the homonymous Czech village, which as destroyed by the Nazis in 1942 (see Lidice).[18]
- František Lorenz was one of the first esperantists in the world and one the most prominent promoters of Esperanto movement in Brazil.[19]
[edit] Notable Czech Brazilians
- František Lorenz
- Fred Figner
- Jan Antonín Baťa
- Jan Nepomuk Kubíček
- Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira
- Lavínia Vlasak
- Tomas Valdemar Hintnaus
- Vilém Flusser
- Vladimir Kubik
- Walter Smetak
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Czech in Brazil
- ^ Fňukal, Miloš RNDr. Ph.D. - Regionální geografie Ameriky: Brazílie
- ^ Os quatro irmãos - Do Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek
- ^ Embaixada da República Tcheca no Brasil - Relações Bilaterais
- ^ Ministerstvo vnitra - Statistiky: Mužská příjmení - 20 nejčetnějších
- ^ Telelistas.net - Serviço de busca de assinantes telefônicos no território brasileiro
- ^ Modernell, Renato - O Vale dos Imigrantes. Revista Terra, São Paulo, v. 63, p. 26 - 33, 01 jul. 1997
- ^ Ruiz, João H. W. - Warta "nasceu" antes mesmo de Londrina, Jornal Comtexto, Londrina, Ano III. Edição nº 072, 16 mar. 2006
- ^ Modernell, Renato - O Vale dos Imigrantes. Revista Terra, São Paulo, v. 63, p. 26 - 33, 01 jul. 1997
- ^ Tourism in the Joinville area [1]
- ^ São Bento do Sul, Santa Catarina - Official Website [2]
- ^ Brazilian Association of Hotel Industry (ABIH) Santa Catarina [3]
- ^ Mafra, Santa Catarina - Official Website [4]
- ^ Prefeitura de Nova Petrópolis - Etnia tcheca é homenageada na Assembléia Legislativa
- ^ Ruiz, Glacy Weber - Londrina
- ^ Prefeitura de Rolândia (PR)História do município
- ^ DIC, Boletim do Departamento de Imigração e Colonização, nº5, Dez. 1950 - according to Salles, Maria R.R., "Imigração, Família e redes sociais: a experiência dos 'deslocados de guerra' em São Paulo, no pós Segunda Guerra Mundial" [5]
- ^ Lídice Brasileira - História da cidade
- ^ Budo Esperanta de Valença - Francisco Valdomiro Lorenz
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