Peter P. Klassen

Peter P. Klassen (1926 – 29 July 2018) was a Russian Mennonite author who wrote in the German language. He 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)
• 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

External links

• Books by Peter P. Klassen in the German National Library (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
• Laudatio für Peter P. Klassen by Jakob Warkentin (2006)
• "The 'Green Hell' Becomes Home: Mennonites in Paraguay as Described in the Writings of Peter P. Klassen" by Gerhard Reimer, Mennonite Quarterly Review 2002
• Pledge of Allegiance by Peter P. Klassen (2008)