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Name
  
Peter Klassen


Role
  
Author

Books
  
The Mennonites in Paraguay: Encounter with Indians and Paraguayans

Peter P. Klassen (born 1926 in the Soviet Union) is a Russian Mennonite author living in Paraguay who writes in German language.

Peter P. Klassen fled with his parents from Soviet Russia to Paraguay, arriving there in 1931. He has had a distinguished career as the premier historian of Mennonites in South America. Klassen has also worked as a teacher and was a long-time editor of the Paraguayan Mennonite newspaper Mennoblatt.

Selected works

  • Die Mennoniten in Paraguay. Band 1: Reich Gottes und Reich dieser Welt (Bolanden-Weierhof, Germany 2001) ISBN 3-921881-05-6
  • Kaputi Mennonita. Eine friedliche Begegnung im Chaco-Krieg (Asuncion, Paraguay 1976)
  • Und ob ich schon wanderte... Geschichten zur Geschichte der Wanderung und Flucht der Mennoniten von Preussen über Russland nach Amerika (Bolanden-Weierhof, Germany 1997)
  • Die schwarzen Reiter. Geschichten zur Geschichte eines Glaubensprinzips (Uchte, Germany 1999)
  • So geschehen in Kronsweide (Germany 2003)

    • References

    Peter P. Klassen Wikipedia
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