Peter P. Klassen

Peter P. classes (* 1926 in the colony Chortitza on the Dnieper ) is a German or russlandmennonitischer teacher, historian and writer in Paraguay.

Life and work

As a child, Peter P. classes fled with his parents from southern Russia via Moscow to Paraguay. Since 1931 he lives and works there in the russlandmennonitischen colony Fernheim. Classes is recognized in historian circles as a specialist of the Mennonite history of Latin America and was editor of the Mennonite - Paraguayan magazine Mennoblatt. Known among the Mennonites and Mennonite Plautdietsch Russia classes was historically founded by his short stories in the series of stories on the history.

Peter P. classes wrote primarily in German and occasionally in Spanish and in his native language Plautdietsch. Before classes participated in a study tour of Plautdietsch friends, he collected and published in editions of the Mennoblattes proverbs and sayings in his native language. In this language, he wrote his book Woman fates. It is, inter alia, a narrative about his mother.

Publications (selection )

  • The Mennonites in Paraguay. Volume 1: the kingdom of God and kingdom of this world; Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society eV, 2001; ISBN 3921881056th
  • The Mennonites in Paraguay. Volume 2: encounter with Native Americans and Paraguayans; Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society eV, 1991; ISBN 3,921,881,072th
  • The German-Russian Mennonites in Brazil; Volume 1: Witmarsum at the Alto Rio and Auhagen on the Stoltz Plateau in Santa Catarina; ; Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society eV, 1995; ISBN 3,921,881,080th
  • The German-Russian Mennonites in Brazil; Volume 2: settlements, groups and communities in the diaspora; Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society eV, 1998; ISBN 3,921,881,099th
  • Always circling vultures. A book from the Chaco Boreal of Paraguay; Asunción: Imprenta ASCIM, 1994.
  • Kamp fire and other Mennonite stories.
  • Kaputi Mennonita. A peaceful encounter in the Chaco War; Asunción (Paraguay ), 1976.
  • And though I walk through ... stories about the history of migration and exodus of Mennonites from Prussia to Russia to America, Mennonite Historical Society, Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society V., 1997.
  • The German - folkish time in the colony Fernheim - Chaco, Paraguay - 1933 - 1945 A contribution to the history of the expatriate German Mennonites during the Third Reich, . Bolanden - Weierhof: Mennonite Historical Society eV, 2001; ISBN 3921881064th
  • The black riders. Stories about the history of a faith principle; Lamp: Sundew -Verlag, 1999; ISBN 3980459640th
  • This is what happened in Kronsweide; , 2003.
  • Via Campo; Asunción: Imprenta Modelo S. A., 2008.
  • Women's lives.
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