# Austrian Brazilians > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Austrian_Brazilians > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Austrian_Brazilians.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_Brazilians > Source revision: 1348172782 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) This article needs more citations. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Austrian Brazilians" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (May 2025) (Learn how and when to remove this message) Ethnic group Austrian Brazilians Austro-brasileiro Austrian descendants in São Paulo. Total population 100,000 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](/source/Portuguese_language): *Austro-brasileiro, Austríaco brasileiro*) refers to [Brazilians](/source/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](/source/German_language) is the second most spoken language in the country.[3][4] The author [Stefan Zweig](/source/Stefan_Zweig) who wrote about Brazil, and the Habsburg-Lorraine [Maria Leopoldina of Austria](/source/Maria_Leopoldina_of_Austria), [Empress consort of Brazil](/source/List_of_Brazilian_consorts), are among the most prominent Austrians to settle in Brazil.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] ## History Some [Austrian Jews](/source/History_of_the_Jews_in_Austria) fled to Brazil to flee [Nazism](/source/Nazism).[5] ## See also - [Austria portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Austria) - [Brazil portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Brazil) - [Austria–Brazil relations](/source/Austria%E2%80%93Brazil_relations) - [Immigration to Brazil](/source/Immigration_to_Brazil) - [White Brazilians](/source/White_Brazilians) - [Austrian people](/source/Austrian_people) - [German Brazilian](/source/German_Brazilian) - [Swiss Brazilians](/source/Swiss_Brazilians) - [History of the Jews in Brazil](/source/History_of_the_Jews_in_Brazil) ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Perego, Simon (2019). ["Yiddish: Language, Culture and Memory from the late 19th century to the present"](https://www.transatlantic-cultures.org/pt/catalog/culture-yiddish). *Transatlantic Cultures*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Assistance to Holocaust Survivors from Austria in Brazil ... - National Fund of the Republic of Austria for Victims of National Socialism"](https://www.nationalfonds.org/detail-view/1556#:~:text=Project,with%20medical%20and%20social%20assistance). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-ethnologue_3-0)** ["Brazil"](http://www.ethnologue.com/country/BR). *Ethnologue*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-ethnologue_hunsrik_4-0)** ["Hunsrik"](http://www.ethnologue.com/language/hrx). *Ethnologue*. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Schpun, Mônica Raisa (30 April 2025). [*Aracy de Carvalho and Jewish Rescue from 1930s Germany*](https://books.google.com/books?id=8FdaEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA197). Springer. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-3-031-84104-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-031-84104-0). ## External links v t e Austrian diaspora Americas Argentina Brazil Canada Mexico United States Uruguay Europe Croatia Romania (Burgenland settlers in Burzenland) United Kingdom Oceania Australia v t e Ancestry and ethnicity in Brazil Brazil Brazilians Indigenous peoples Mixed-race or mestiços ainokos pardos caboclos mamelucos Amazonian Jews cafuzos juçaras caiçaras mulatos sararás Africa By ethnicity Black quilombolas Kalunga West Africa Nigerian Central Africa Angolan Congolese Americas North America American (United States) Americana Confederados New Texas Santa Bárbara d'Oeste Canadian Mexican Caribbean Barbadian Cuban Haitian Jamaican Central America Costa Rican Guatemalan Honduran Nicaraguan Panamanian Salvadoran South America Argentine Bolivian Chilean Colombian Ecuadorian Guyanese Paraguayan Peruvian Surinamese Uruguayan Venezuelan Asia By ethnicity Yellow (East Asian) By country or region Eastern Chinese Filipino Indonesian Japanese in São Paulo Korean Malaysian Thai Vietnamese Southern Bangladeshi East Indians Pakistani Romani Central Afghan Western Armenian Arab Iraqi Lebanese Palestinian Syrian Iranian Jewish Turkish Europe By ethnicity White By country or region Central Austrian Czech German Hungarian Polish Swiss Eastern Belarusian Russian Ukrainian Northern Estonian Latvian Lithuanian Scandinavian Southern Bulgarian Croatian Greek Italian Macedonian Portuguese Romanian Spanish Western Belgian British (English and Scottish) Dutch French Irish Luxembourgian Related topics Demographics of Brazil Colonization Slave trade Immigration from Europe Emigration Racism [Portals](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Contents/Portals): - [Austria](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Austria) - [Brazil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Brazil) This Brazil-related article is a stub. 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