Overview of Topics
From Mark Twain in the German Language Press
All pages with additional information on people, places, and topics are collected here. There are additional Overview Pages collectiong entries on people and places respectively. Entries are sorted alphabetically.
There are 68 entries in this collection.
Agricultural Paper
Mark Twain's sketch “How I Edited an Agricultural Paper Once" originally appeared in the "Memoranda" section of The Galaxy ..→...read more
Almira Russel Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock's book Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock (1887) was published by Mark Twain’s publishing firm, ..→...read more
Anecdotes
There were many anecdotes about Mark Twain - some inspired by his own writing or interviews he gave, some entirely made up or resulting out of misunderstandings in the press. Some of these stories ..→...read more
Anna Kirchstein
Anna Kirchstein was a writer, poet, and translator from Germany who later moved to the US. On the occasion of Kirchstein's 70th birthday in 1918, a newspaper article praises the poet for her work as ..→...read more
Anti-Imperialist League
The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in 1898 in response to the increasingly expansionist foreign policies of the United States. Its membership was diverse, including Republicans, Democrats, ..→...read more
Association of American Physicians
Towards the End of the 20th century, there was an increasing number of American doctors staying in Germany to further their study of medicine and some of them founded the Association of American ..→...read more
August Siemering
August Siemering (1830–1883) was a writer, editor, judge, political leader, and publisher of the San Antonio Freie Presse für Texas. Born and educated in Germany, Siemering emigrated to the ..→...read more
Awful German Language
"The Awful German Language" was originally published as "Appendix D" of A Tramp Abroad in 1880 (601-619). The text was widely ..→...read more
Berlin
During their extensive stay in Europe, Mark Twain, his wife, and their daughters Clara and Jean took up residence in ..→...read more
Berlin/Englisches Haus
Located adjacent to Gendarmenmarkt, at Mohrenstraße 49, “das Englische Haus” was a very fashionable private dining establishment in Berlin. It was originally owned and operated by Adolf Huster, ..→...read more
Bermuda
Clemens visited Bermuda several times throughout his life and twice in 1908. The trip that fits the time frame of the article is his stay at the Princess Hotel from 27 Jan.-3 March. He was ..→...read more
Chapters Autobiography
Mark Twain's "Chapters from My Autobiography" was originally a series of 25 articles in the North American Review which ran initially from September 1906 to December 1907. The first installment ..→...read more
Charles Brookheim
Charles. L. Brookheim was a New York lawyer who worked on bankruptcy cases, usually as official receiver/trustee. He was responsible for assessing the bankrupt company’s assets and income and for ..→...read more
Charles Jervis Langdon
Charles Langdon was born on 13 August 1849. He was Olivia Langdon's younger brother and Samuel Clemens' brother-in-law.
Samuel Clemens and Charles Langdon met during the ..→...read more
Clara Langdon Clemens
Clara Clemens was born on 8 June 1874 on Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y., and the second daughter of Samuel L. Clemens and his wife Olivia Langdon Clemens. Compared to her sisters, ..→...read more
Concerning Jews
"Concerning the Jews" was first published in Harper's Magazine (99:592, 527–535). The text was not as widely discussed in the ..→...read more
Diplomatic Pay
"Diplomatic Pay and Clothes", a critical discussion of US diplomats' financial situation in Europe, was first published in The Forum ..→...read more
Edward Warren Ordway
Edward Warren Ordway was a lawyer and political activist who served as secretary for the Anti-Imperialist League of New York from 1899 until 1904. He was also a part of the Filipino Progress ..→...read more
Elmira
Elmira, N.Y., was the home of Olivia Langdon Clemens' family and the Langdon family home was the place where Olivia and Samuel Clemens got married in 1870. During the summers, the Clemens family ..→...read more
Elmira/Quarry Farm
Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of Olivia Langdon Clemens’ sister, Susan Langdon Crane, and her husband Theodore. The Clemens family spent most summers ..→...read more
Elmira/Woodlawn Cemetery
Clemens and “all members of his immediate family” (Rasmussen et al. 2:945) are buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira, N.Y.. ..→...read more
Encounter Interviewer
The sketch "An Encounter with an Interviewer" was first published in the collection Punch, Brothers, Punch! And Other Sketches ..→...read more
Ernst Otto Hopp
Ernst Otto Hopp (1841-1910) was a German-born educator, journalist, editor, translator, and author with a keen interest in the United States. He was born and raised in Germany and received his ..→...read more
First Lie
"My First Lie, and How I Got Out of It" was first published in New York World, 10 Dec. 1899. It was later collected in The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg, and Other Stories and Essays ..→...read more
Friedrich Maehliss
Friedrich Mähliss (alternative spelling: Mähliß) was a German language teacher and writer who - in 1892 - published a 23-page brochure entitled Die Schrecken der deutschen Sprache ..→...read more
Funeral
After his death on 21 April 1910, Samuel Clemens’ body was transported by railway from his home in Redding, Ct., to New York City. On 23 April, a funeral procession and a memorial service at ..→...read more
German Chicago
In 1891, Clemens agreed with the New York Sun to write six travel letters during his stay in Europe (Rasmussen et al. 2:813). ..→...read more
Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu
Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu (1847-1902) worked as a translator and correspondent for various national and international newspapers and used her travels through Southern Europe as material for ..→...read more
Grandfather's Ram
The story of Jim Blaine attempting to tell a story while repeatedly getting off track was originally included as an episode of Roughing It ..→...read more
Hans Blum
Hans Blum was born on 8th June 1841 in Leipzig. He worked as a lawyer, journalist and writer, and wrote for (among others) the literary magazines Daheim and Grenzboten. He died on 1st Feb. ..→...read more
Heidelberg
Samuel Clemens arrived in Heidelberg on April 22, 1878. It was the first extended stay on his trip through Europe during the years 1878-1879. He was accompanied by his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens ..→...read more
Heidelberg/Schloss-Hotel
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pa..
After graduating from Princeton Theological Seminary, he spent a few years in Europe, studying and travelling (see ..→...read more
Hermann Theodor Schmid
Schmid’s novel Der Habermeister was reprinted in serialized form in the German American newspaper Der Westbote (Columbus, Ohio), beginning on ..→...read more
Introducing General Hawley
Mark Twain gave a speech introducing Genral Hawley at the Republican Meeting in Elmira, New York, on 16th October, 1879 ..→...read more
Jane Lampton Clemens
Jane Lampton (Jean) Clemens was Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon Clemens’ third and youngest daughter. She was born on 26 July 1880 on Quarry Farm in Elmira, N.Y., and named after ..→...read more
Joseph Twichell
Joseph Hopkins Twichell was born on 27 May 1838 in Southington, CT. He was a chaplain in the New York State Infantry during the Civil War, an experience that shaped his views and his work as a pastor ..→...read more
Letter Postal Service
Mark Twain’s letter was dated July 22, 1876. A transcribed and annotated version is available from the Mark Twain Project (UCCL01350). The ..→...read more
Letter Treasury
On October 3rd 1902, Mark Twain sent a letter to the secretary of the treasury in which Twain requested to be send winter fuel - in the form of treasury bonds, bank notes, etc.. The letter soon ..→...read more
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Hayes was born Lucy Ware Webb on 28th August 1831 in Chillicothe, OH. She married Rutherford B. Hayes in December 1852 who was elected US president in 1877. Lucy Hayes was the first woman to be ..→...read more
Making Fortune
This short sketch by Mark Twain appeared in several American daily newspapers beginning in February 1873. Most newspapers printed the sketch under the heading "Making a Fortune"; however, the ..→...read more
McWilliams Lightning
“Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning” (1880) is the second of three McWilliams family stories which appeared between 1875 and 1882. It first appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in September 1880 ..→...read more
Million Bank Note
Mark Twain’s short story “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” was first published in 1893 in the Century Magazine (45:3, 338-346). ..→...read more
North American Review
The North American Review - founded in 1815 - is the oldest literary magazine in the USA and is still published today (see ..→...read more
Notice Burglars
A report on the burglary was published in the New York Times ("Burglars Invade Mark Twain Villa," 19 Sept. 1908) and Barbara Schmidt provides a ..→...read more
Olivia Langdon Clemens
Olivia (Livy) Louise Langdon was born on 27 Nov. 1845 in Elmira, N.Y., as the second child of Jervis and Olivia Lewis Langdon. Her father was a wealthy man who owned a flourishing coal business ..→...read more
Olivia Susan Clemens
Olivia Susan (Susy) Clemens was born 19 March 1872 in Elmira, N.Y., and Samuel and Olivia Langdon Clemens’ oldest daughter. She was called Susy by her family.
As a child, she began writing ..→...read more
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born on 7 Feb. 1878 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Aged ten and considered a child prodigy, he was admitted to the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study piano and later took ..→...read more
Otto Lecher
Otto Lecher was an Austrian politician and member of the Austrian "Abgeordnetenhaus".
During Mark Twain's visit to the Austrian Parliament on 28th October 1897, ..→...read more
Pen Name
Samuel L. Clemens started using the pen name "Mark Twain" in 1863 (see Rasmussen et al. 2:774). Its first known appearance was in a ..→...read more
Plasmon
The main product sold by the Plasmon Company was also called “Plasmon”, a skim milk powder that was supposed to restore general health and which Samuel L. Clemens encountered first during his ..→...read more
Quaker City Excursion
The Quaker City Excursion was an American pleasure cruise and educational excursion to the Mediterranean and back that took place in 1867. “Quaker City” was the name of the steamship used for the ..→...read more
Redding
In 1906, Samuel Clemens bought land in the vicinity of the town Redding in Connecticut. The purchase was made without Clemens having seen the property beforehand as he was eager to strike an apparent ..→...read more
Redding/Stormfield
“Stormfield” was Samuel Clemens’ last permanent home and located just outside the town of Redding in Connecticut. The house was designed by John Mead Howells; Clara Langdon Clemens and ..→...read more
Running for Governor
The sketch “Running for Governor” was originally published in the Buffalo Express in November 1870 and in The Galaxy in December 1870 ..→...read more
Salutation Speech
Mark Twain's text "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth", a sarcastic and critical welcome to the new millenium, was origianlly published in the New York Herald, 30 Dec. ..→...read more
Samuel Eastman
Samuel Eastman was pastor at Elmira's Park Church. His wife, Annis Ford Eastman, shared his position and was one of the first female ministers in the US (see ..→...read more
Savage Club Speech
On 15th November 1895, Mark Twain held a speech at the Savage Club in Christchurch, New Zealand. A version of the speech can be found in Mark Twain Speaking ..→...read more
Sitting in Darkness
Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” is a polemical article which appeared in the North American Review in 1901 ..→...read more
Switzerland Cradle of Liberty
A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers (Paine 2:923) and which appeared as “Switzerland, The Cradle of ..→...read more
The Babies
Mark Twain's speech on "The Babies" was delivered on 13th November 1879 during a Reunion Banquet of the Army of the Tennessee in Chicago. For the full text see Mark Twain Speaking ..→...read more
Vienna
Mark Twain, accompanied by his wife Olivia and his daughters Jean and Clara, stayed in Vienna from 27th September 1897 ..→...read more
Vienna/Book Announcement
This book announcement was a joke made by Mark Twain during his last week in Vienna and everybody believed it. In an interview with Dr. Johannes Horowitz, correspondent for the New York Times, ..→...read more
Vienna/Hotel Krantz
Vienna/Visit to Parliament
Shortly after arriving in Vienna, Mark Twain started to take an interest in local politics. On 28th October 1897, he attended a sitting of the Austro-Hungarian parliament for the first time ..→...read more
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving office from 1909 to 1913. He was born 15th Sep. 1857 and died 8th March 1930.
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William Walter Phelps
William Walter Phelps was an American politician who was appointed by President Harrison to represent the United States in Germany at the International Congress on the Samoan Question in 1889. He was ..→...read more
Woman
Mark Twain delivered this speech on 22nd December 1882 at the annual dinner of the New England Society of New York.
The text of the speech can be found in Mark Twain Speaking ..→...read more