Giuseppe 'Joseph' Brunn [Brun] (1871-1951)

This is an entry in the ongoing work attached to the 'Brill Global History of Italian Protestantism', the online research collection for which is Explorations in Italian Protestantism: Giuseppe ‘Joseph’ Brunn [Brun] was born in Andreis, prov. Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, on 5 September 1871, one of the six children of Antonio Brun (1828–1912) and Cristina Trincus (1834–1927). On migration to the USA in 1890, he encountered the work of Antonio Andrea Arrighi, and was propelled to join the Italian mission work of the PCUSA. He built significant works in Pennsylvania (esp. Hazleton) before succeeding to Arrighi's Broome Street Tabernacle. An influential leader and model for others, he represented in the USA the vision of building a modern, prosperous, liberal Italy and improving the lot of Italians (at home and abroad) which was, in all of his involvements, at the core of his religious work. His work on migration had a substantial impact on US domestic migration policies from the Dillingham Commission on Immigration forward. For the full EIP site, see: https://sites.google.com/view/explorations-in-italian-protes/home.