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Mark Twain in German-Language Newspapers and Periodicals

†Mark Twain.† | 01 May 1910

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Der Sonntagsbote. (Milwaukee, Wis.), 01 May 1910. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress. <https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn87082455/1910-05-01/ed-1/seq-4/>

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†Mark Twain.†	†Mark Twain.†
Samuel Langhorne [Clem]ens, als Schriftsteller unter dem Namen „Mark Twain“ auf dem ganzen Erdenrund bekannt, unzweifelhaft der bedeutendste Humorist und Satyriker America's, ist am 21 April in seinem ländlichen Heim „Stormfield“ zu Redding, Conn., in Alter von 75 Jahren gestorben. Am 30. November 1835 zu Florida, Mo., geboren, wurde er Buchdrucker in St. Louis, dann Pilot au[f] dem Mississippi, später Journalist in Virginia City, San Francisco und Buffalo; 1867 machte er eine Fahrt nach Aegypten u. Kleinasien, deren Frucht sein Buch „Innocents Abroad“ war, das seinen Ruhm als Schriftsteller begründete. Den köstlichen, auf Scherzhafter Uebertreibung beruhenden Humor, welchen er schon hier bewies, hat er seither in seinen zahlreichen Schriften, die fast in alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt wurden, an den verschiedensten Stoffen entfaltet. Athembeschwerden und Herzschwäche waren die directen Todesursachen, [bil]deten aber nur die äußeren Begleite[rs]cheinungen und theilweisen Folgen des Grams über den am 24. Dec. v. Js. erfolgten jähen Tod seiner Lieblingstochter Jean, der den sonst alles mit philosophischer Ruhe hinnehmenden Humoristen tief erschütterte und seinen Lebensmuth geknickt hatte.	Samuel Langhorne [Clem]ens, known as a writer all across the globe under the name of “Mark Twain,” unquestionably America's foremost humorist and satirist, died April 21 at his rural home, “Stormfield,” at Redding, Conn. aged 75. Born Nov. 30, 1835, at Florida, Mo. he became a printer in St. Louis, then a pilot on the Mississippi, later a journalist in Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo; in 1867 he made a trip to Egypt & Asia Minor, the fruit of which was his book “Innocents Abroad,” which established his fame as a writer. The delicious humor, based on jocular exaggeration, which he already demonstrated here, he had since developed in his numerous writings on the most diverse subjects, which have been translated into almost all European languages. Respiratory problems and cardiac insufficiency were the direct causes of his death, but they were only the outward manifestations and partial consequences of the grief over the sudden death of his favorite daughter Jean on December 24 of last year, which deeply shook the humorist, who otherwise accepted everything with philosophical calm, and shattered his courage to live.

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†Mark Twain.†

Samuel Langhorne [Clem]ens, als Schriftsteller unter dem Namen „Mark Twain“ auf dem ganzen Erdenrund bekannt, unzweifelhaft der bedeutendste Humorist und Satyriker America's, ist am 21 April in seinem ländlichen Heim „Stormfield“ zu Redding, Conn., in Alter von 75 Jahren gestorben. Am 30. November 1835 zu Florida, Mo., geboren, wurde er Buchdrucker in St. Louis, dann Pilot au[f] dem Mississippi, später Journalist in Virginia City, San Francisco und Buffalo; 1867 machte er eine Fahrt nach Aegypten u. Kleinasien, deren Frucht sein Buch „Innocents Abroad“ war, das seinen Ruhm als Schriftsteller begründete. Den köstlichen, auf Scherzhafter Uebertreibung beruhenden Humor, welchen er schon hier bewies, hat er seither in seinen zahlreichen Schriften, die fast in alle europäischen Sprachen übersetzt wurden, an den verschiedensten Stoffen entfaltet. Athembeschwerden und Herzschwäche waren die directen Todesursachen, [bil]deten aber nur die äußeren Begleite[rs]cheinungen und theilweisen Folgen des Grams über den am 24. Dec. v. Js. erfolgten jähen Tod seiner Lieblingstochter Jean, der den sonst alles mit philosophischer Ruhe hinnehmenden Humoristen tief erschütterte und seinen Lebensmuth geknickt hatte.

Samuel Langhorne [Clem]ens, known as a writer all across the globe under the name of “Mark Twain,” unquestionably America's foremost humorist and satirist, died April 21 at his rural home, “Stormfield,” at Redding, Conn. aged 75. Born Nov. 30, 1835, at Florida, Mo. he became a printer in St. Louis, then a pilot on the Mississippi, later a journalist in Virginia City, San Francisco, and Buffalo; in 1867 he made a trip to Egypt & Asia Minor, the fruit of which was his book “Innocents Abroad,” which established his fame as a writer. The delicious humor, based on jocular exaggeration, which he already demonstrated here, he had since developed in his numerous writings on the most diverse subjects, which have been translated into almost all European languages. Respiratory problems and cardiac insufficiency were the direct causes of his death, but they were only the outward manifestations and partial consequences of the grief over the sudden death of his favorite daughter Jean on December 24 of last year, which deeply shook the humorist, who otherwise accepted everything with philosophical calm, and shattered his courage to live.