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 ...read more
Almira Russel Hancock
Almira Russell Hancock's book Reminiscences of Winfield Scott Hancock ...read more
Anecdotes
There were many anecdotes about Mark Twain - some inspired by his own writing or interviews he ...read more
Anna Kirchstein
Anna Kirchstein was a writer, poet, and translator from Germany who later moved to the US. On the ...read more
Anti-Imperialist League
The Anti-Imperialist League was formed in 1898 in response to the increasingly expansionist foreign ...read more
Association of American Physicians
Towards the End of the 20th century, there was an increasing number of American doctors staying in ...read more
August Siemering
August Siemering (1830–1883) was a writer, editor, judge, political leader, and publisher of the ...read more
Awful German Language
"The Awful German Language" was originally published as "Appendix D" of A Tramp Abroad in 1880 ...read more
Berlin
Berlin/Englisches Haus
Located adjacent to Gendarmenmarkt, at Mohrenstraße 49, “das Englische Haus” was a very ...read more
Bermuda
Clemens visited Bermuda several times throughout his life and twice in 1908. The trip that fits the ...read more
Chapters Autobiography
Mark Twain's "Chapters from My Autobiography" was originally a series of 25 articles in the ...read more
Charles Brookheim
Charles. L. Brookheim was a New York lawyer who worked on bankruptcy cases, usually as official ...read more
Charles Jervis Langdon
Clara Langdon Clemens
Concerning Jews
"Concerning the Jews" was first published in Harper's Magazine ...read more
Diplomatic Pay
"Diplomatic Pay and Clothes", a critical discussion of US diplomats' financial situation in Europe, ...read more
Edward Warren Ordway
Edward Warren Ordway was a lawyer and political activist who served as secretary for the ...read more
Elmira
Elmira, N.Y., was the home of Olivia Langdon Clemens' family and the Langdon family home was ...read more
Elmira/Quarry Farm
Situated just outside Elmira, N.Y., Quarry Farm was the permanent home of Olivia Langdon Clemens ...read more
Elmira/Woodlawn Cemetery
Clemens and “all members of his immediate family” ...read more
Encounter Interviewer
The sketch "An Encounter with an Interviewer" was first published in the collection Punch, ...read more
Ernst Otto Hopp
Ernst Otto Hopp (1841-1910) was a German-born educator, journalist, editor, translator, and author ...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 ...read more
Friedrich Maehliss
Friedrich Mähliss (alternative spelling: Mähliß) was a German language teacher and writer who - ...read more
Funeral
After his death on 21 April 1910, Samuel Clemens’ body was transported by railway from his home ...read more
German Chicago
In 1891, Clemens agreed with the New York Sun to write six travel letters during his stay in ...read more
Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu
Gertraut Chales de Beaulieu (1847-1902) worked as a translator and correspondent for various ...read more
Grandfather's Ram
The story of Jim Blaine attempting to tell a story while repeatedly getting off track was ...read more
Hans Blum
Hans Blum was born on 8th June 1841 in Leipzig. He worked as a lawyer, journalist and writer, and ...read more
Heidelberg
Samuel Clemens arrived in Heidelberg on April 22, 1878. It was the first extended stay on his trip ...read more
Heidelberg/Schloss-Hotel
Henry Van Dyke
Henry Van Dyke was born on 10 November 1852 in Germantown, Pa..
After graduating from Princeton ...read more
Hermann Theodor Schmid
Schmid’s novel Der Habermeister was reprinted in serialized form in the German American ...read more
Introducing General Hawley
Mark Twain gave a speech introducing Genral Hawley at the Republican Meeting in Elmira, New York, ...read more
Jane Lampton Clemens
Jane Lampton (Jean) Clemens was Samuel Clemens and Olivia Langdon Clemens’ third and youngest ...read more
Joseph Twichell
Joseph Hopkins Twichell was born on 27 May 1838 in Southington, CT. He was a chaplain in the New ...read more
Letter Postal Service
Mark Twain’s letter was dated July 22, 1876. A transcribed and annotated version is available ...read more
Letter Treasury
On October 3rd 1902, Mark Twain sent a letter to the secretary of the treasury in which Twain ...read more
Lucy Webb Hayes
Lucy Hayes was born Lucy Ware Webb on 28th August 1831 in Chillicothe, OH. She married Rutherford ...read more
Making Fortune
This short sketch by Mark Twain appeared in several American daily newspapers beginning in February ...read more
McWilliams Lightning
“Mrs. McWilliams and the Lightning” (1880) is the second of three McWilliams family stories ...read more
Million Bank Note
Mark Twain’s short story “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note,” was first published in 1893 in the ...read more
North American Review
The North American Review - founded in 1815 - is the oldest literary magazine in the USA and is ...read more
Notice Burglars
A report on the burglary was published in the New York Times ("Burglars Invade Mark Twain ...read more
Olivia Langdon Clemens
Olivia (Livy) Louise Langdon was born on 27 Nov. 1845 in Elmira, N.Y., as the second child of ...read more
Olivia Susan Clemens
Ossip Gabrilowitsch
Ossip Gabrilowitsch was born on 7 Feb. 1878 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Aged ten and considered a ...read more
Otto Lecher
Otto Lecher was an Austrian politician and member of the Austrian "Abgeordnetenhaus".
During Mark ...read more
Pen Name
Samuel L. Clemens started using the pen name "Mark Twain" in 1863 (see ...read more
Plasmon
The main product sold by the Plasmon Company was also called “Plasmon”, a skim milk powder that ...read more
Quaker City Excursion
The Quaker City Excursion was an American pleasure cruise and educational excursion to the ...read more
Redding
In 1906, Samuel Clemens bought land in the vicinity of the town Redding in Connecticut. The ...read more
Redding/Stormfield
“Stormfield” was Samuel Clemens’ last permanent home and located just outside the town of ...read more
Running for Governor
The sketch “Running for Governor” was originally published in the Buffalo Express in ...read more
Salutation Speech
Mark Twain's text "Salutation-Speech from the Nineteenth Century to the Twentieth", a sarcastic and ...read more
Samuel Eastman
Samuel Eastman was pastor at Elmira's Park Church. His wife, Annis Ford Eastman, shared his ...read more
Savage Club Speech
On 15th November 1895, Mark Twain held a speech at the Savage Club in Christchurch, New Zealand. A ...read more
Sitting in Darkness
Mark Twain’s “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” is a polemical article which appeared in the ...read more
Switzerland Cradle of Liberty
A series of six letters Mark Twain wrote for American newspapers ...read more
The Babies
Mark Twain's speech on "The Babies" was delivered on 13th November 1879 during a Reunion Banquet of ...read more
Vienna
Vienna/Book Announcement
This book announcement was a joke made by Mark Twain during his last week in Vienna and everybody ...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 ...read more
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving office from 1909 to 1913. ...read more
William Walter Phelps
William Walter Phelps was an American politician who was appointed by President Harrison to ...read more
Woman
Mark Twain delivered this speech on 22nd December 1882 at the annual dinner of the New England ...read more