Born at 6 o'clock in the morning on 11 February 1858, in Rakowitz, Marienwerder, West Prussia. Son of Johann Klamas and Barbara Mech. Baptised on 16 February 1858 in Pehsken (Polish: Piaseczno). His godparents were Franz Zaworski and Marianna Baraszewska. He was blessed by Father Schaefer.
At age 19 he emigrated to Brazil with his mother Barbara (50) and his brother Josef (16), aboard the steamship Kepler, departing from the port of Antwerp and arriving in Rio de Janeiro on 12 December 1876, continuing from there to Paranaguá. German citizens, Catholic, but probably of Polish ethnicity and mother tongue.
On 31.12.1877 he settled on plot no. 8, of 19,250.00 m², in the Rivière Colony, Curitiba, PR. On the occasion of a statistical survey of the Curitiba colonies carried out in 1887: Valentin Klamas, 28 years old, married, Polish, farmer, settled on plot number 8 of the Rivière Colony on 31.12.1877. He grows rye, maize, beans, potatoes and peas, and owns a wooden house, a barn, a stable, two horses and a cow. Wife: Lúcia Klamas, 26, Polish. Children: Leocádia (6), Júlio (2) and Francisco (1).
On 28.06.1898, Valentin Klamas transferred his plot in the Rivière Colony to João Maczonek, probably the occasion on which he moved with his family to the Thomaz Coelho Colony, in Araucária. On 07.10.1889, Valentim Klamas presented himself in Curitiba to take the oath of allegiance to the Constitution and laws of the Brazilian Empire, thus acknowledging Brazil as his homeland. He died on 6 August 1917, aged 59, in the Tomás Coelho Colony, Araucária, PR.