The book: Lá n?o existem Flores! (Over there ain’t no Flowers!) published by the Brazilian writer Felipe Kummer, based in Zürich, Switzerland relates the story of a Chemical-Industrial German engineer, a Kummer’s family member, who came to the Brazilian’s northeast region in the late nineteenth century as a supervisor from the first’s railroads.
Together with partners in the Brazilian Pernambuco’s state, the Industrial Leader Carlos Alberto de Menezes and the French engineer Pierre Collier, founded in January 1891 a textile factory - Companhia Industrial Pernambucana - with a large production capacity in the old mill Camaragibe in S?o Louren?o da Mata’s Village. Today a place localized in Camaragibe city. They developed the “Workers Corporation of Camaragibe” and the first workers village from Latin America.
To get an idea to the author’s work, the publication profoundly runs through the Bavaria and Brazilian’s Pernambuco family origins, rescuing the teachings, genealogy, genetic and sociology from the ancient times of peasants, artisans, princes and citizens. Introducing us until the strong sons of Brazilian dry lands communities as Camaragibe, S?o Louren?o ...The book: Lá n?o existem Flores! (Over there ain’t no Flowers!) published by the Brazilian writer Felipe Kummer, based in Zürich, Switzerland relates the story of a Chemical-Industrial German engineer, a Kummer’s family member, who came to the Brazilian’s northeast region in the late nineteenth century as a supervisor from the first’s railroads.
Together with partners in the Brazilian Pernambuco’s state, the Industrial Leader Carlos Alberto de Menezes and the French engineer Pierre Collier, founded in January 1891 a textile factory - Companhia Industrial Pernambucana - with a large production capacity in the old mill Camaragibe in S?o Louren?o da Mata’s Village. Today a place localized in Camaragibe city. They developed the “Workers Corporation of Camaragibe” and the first workers village from Latin America.
To get an idea to the author’s work, the publication profoundly runs through the Bavaria and Brazilian’s Pernambuco family origins, rescuing the teachings, genealogy, genetic and sociology from the ancient times of peasants, artisans, princes and citizens. Introducing us until the strong sons of Brazilian dry lands communities as Camaragibe, S?o Louren?o da Mata, Recife in Pernambuco, Maceió in Alagoas state, firstly summed the ancestor’s experiences from Danube River in Germany until the histories from riverbank of S?o Francisco River descendents, in Porto Real do Colégio city in Alagoas state.
The book holds the attention for the sixteenth to the late twentieth century countrymen histories, fulfilling the mission as a backdrop with the many Germans immigrants who chose the Brazil country to live.
Kummer also wrote a detailed investigation of the origin of his surname, not forgetting his gene-cousins also present in southern’s Brazil. Breaking taboos to include a genetic study of the origins of Kummer family, clarifying the many controversial and moral issues that shuffle up with his own family history based in the psychological-genealogy work from the Chilean therapist and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky. Going forward he meditates, able to provide a new understanding on the individual’s own life.
It’s also pictured the connections between the Pernambuco’s family: Campêlo and the Guimar?es’ family from Paraíba state, when one day a family member called Francelina and married his German genitor, Friedrich, known in Brazil as Frederico. The couple provided a posthumous* single child called “Frederico”. When he grew up donated almost half of his life as a popular doctor caring alone of poor people in the hinterland Brazilian’s Alagoas state.
From this entire people, today we find a hundred other families throughout Brazil with members currently active and recognized in all public areas. Over there ain’t no Flowers! Hereditary search from Frederico Otto Kummer, it’s a book that intends not just investigate the Author’s family, but those who aspire to a cultural, personal and spiritual enrichment.
*Posthumous(Latin): born after father’s death.(展開)