Nicholas Gonner Bücher

Die Luxemburger - in der neuen Welt bietet einen faszinierenden Einblick in die Erfahrungen und Herausforderungen der luxemburgischen Einwanderer im späten 19. Jahrhundert. Der Nachdruck der Originalausgabe von 1889 bewahrt die historischen Perspektiven und Erzählungen, die das Leben und die Kultur der Luxemburger in der neuen Welt beleuchten. Leser können sich auf authentische Berichte und eine detaillierte Darstellung der damaligen Lebensumstände freuen, die sowohl informativ als auch bereichernd sind.

In 1883, the newspaper editor Nicolas Gonner publishes sixty-two Luxembourgish poems in his publishing house in Dubuque, Iowa. In this work, he presents three authors from his home country: Jean-Baptiste Nau, who lived only for a short time in Detroit before heading back to his family home in Tétange, in the south of Luxembourg; Nicolas Edouard Becker, who emigrated with his parents to Wisconsin when he was eleven years old and spent the rest of his life as a farmer, school teacher, writer and politician among his Luxembourg American compatriots; and finally Nicolas Gonner himself, best known for his history of the Luxembourgish emigration to North America, "The Luxembourgers in the New World". As stated in the first poem, Prairie Flowers was meant as a present from the authors to their friends back in Europe.