Austrian Brazilians

{{Refimprove|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox ethnic group | group = Austrian Brazilians ''Austro-brasileiro'' | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = [[File:21ª Festa do Imigrante (27001689233).jpg|300px]] Austrian descendants in [[São Paulo]]. | pop = 100,000 | popplace = Mainly [[Santa Catarina (state)|Santa Catarina]], [[São Paulo]] and [[Minas Gerais]]. | langs = Predominantly [[Brazilian Portuguese|Portuguese]] [[Austro-Bavarian]], [[Austrian German|German]], [[Yiddish]]<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Perego|first1=Simon|url=https://www.transatlantic-cultures.org/pt/catalog/culture-yiddish|title=Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present|journal=Transatlantic Cultures|date=2019}}</ref> | rels = Christianity (Mainly [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholicism]]), [[Protestantism]], [[Judaism]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Assistance to Holocaust Survivors from Austria in Brazil ... - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism | url=https://www.nationalfonds.org/detail-view/1556#:~:text=Project,with%20medical%20and%20social%20assistance }}</ref> and [[Religion in Brazil|others]] | related = Other [[White Brazilians]], especially [[German Brazilians]] }}

'''Austrian Brazilians''' ([[Portuguese language|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 language|German]] is the second most spoken language in the country.<ref name="ethnologue">{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/country/BR|title=Brazil|work=Ethnologue}}</ref><ref name="ethnologue hunsrik">{{cite web|url=http://www.ethnologue.com/language/hrx|title=Hunsrik|work=Ethnologue}}</ref> The author [[Stefan Zweig]] who wrote about Brazil, and the Habsburg-Lorraine [[Maria Leopoldina of Austria]], [[list of Brazilian consorts|Empress consort of Brazil]], are among the most prominent Austrians to settle in Brazil.{{cn|date=June 2025}}

==History== Some [[History of the Jews in Austria|Austrian Jews]] fled to Brazil to flee [[Nazism]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Schpun |first1=Mônica Raisa |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8FdaEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA197|title=Aracy de Carvalho and Jewish Rescue from 1930s Germany |date=30 April 2025 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-031-84104-0 }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|Austria|Brazil}} * [[Austria–Brazil relations]] * [[Immigration to Brazil]] * [[White Brazilians]] * [[Austrian people]] * [[German Brazilian]] * [[Swiss Brazilians]] * [[History of the Jews in Brazil]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links==

[[Category:Austrian diaspora in Brazil|*]] [[Category:European diaspora in Brazil|Austria]] [[Category:Brazilian people of Austrian descent|*]]