In the spring of 1905, Richard Petersen, Hermann von Freeden, Carlos Aue, and fifteen other affluent men in Buenos Aires launched a fund-raising campaign on behalf of the German Women’s Home. The men ...stressed the need for the city’s German community to increase its care for the sick, the poor, single women, sailors, and orphans.¹ Adele Petersen, Elisabeth von Freeden, Hanna Scheringer, Dr. Petrona Eyle, and more than 200 female members of the German Women’s Association of Buenos Aires had been making small contributions to the home since 1896, but they appeared to need the support of men in order
This article examines the relationship between religion, ethnicity, and space in Ontario between 1880 and 1930. It tracks the spread of organized Lutheranism across Ontario as well as the connections ...that bound German-language Lutheran congregations to the United States and Germany. In so doing, this article seeks to push the study of religion in Canada beyond national boundaries. Building on a number of studies of the international influences on other denominations in Canada, this article charts out an entangled history that does not line up with the evolution of other churches. It offers new insights about the relationship between language and denomination in Ontario society, the rise of a theologically-mainstream Protestant church, and the role of institutional networks that connected people across a large space. The author argues that regional, national, and transnational connections shaped the development of many local German-language Lutheran communities in Ontario.
Through the study of the German Hospital, one of the largest German-language organizations in Buenos Aires, this article highlights several aspects of the history of German speakers in this city that ...have yet to receive much scholarly attention. The internal structure, fundraisers, and support for this Hospital between 1880 and 1930 reveal a great deal about the development of ideas regarding community and the gendered nature of ethnic organization. Furthermore, the support that one of city's many ethnic groups offered to a hospital provides a unique opportunity to enter new historiographic debates in migration studies by situating German speakers into two central themes in Argentine historiography: that of the power of the state, and of the development of health care in Buenos Aires. I argue that the German Hospital and female charity work for the hospital played an important role in promoting group cohesion that transcended divisions of class and citizenship, particularly by emphasizing racialized ideas of a Germanic nation. Adapted from the source document.
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