Samuel Langhorne Clemens

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne: see Twain, Mark.

orig. Samuel Langhorne Clemens

(born Nov. 30, 1835, Florida, Mo., U.S.—died April 21, 1910, Redding, Conn.) U.S. humorist, writer, and lecturer. He grew up in Hannibal, Mo., on the Mississippi River and was apprenticed in 1848 to a local printer. He received a riverboat pilot's license in 1859 and later moved on to Nevada and California. In 1863 he took his pseudonym, the riverman's term for water 2 fathoms (12 ft [3.7 m]) deep. In a California mining camp he heard the story that he first published in 1865 and made famous as the h1 story of his first book, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (1867). He traveled widely, using his travels as subject matter for lectures and books, from the humorous narratives The Innocents Abroad (1869) and Roughing It (1872) to Life on the Mississippi (1883), his reflections on being a riverboat captain. He won a worldwide audience for his adventure stories of boyhood, especially Tom Sawyer (1876) and Huckleberry Finn (1885), one of the masterpieces of American fiction. The satirical A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1889) and increasingly grim works including Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894) and The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) followed. In the 1890s financial speculations bankrupted him. His eldest daughter died in 1896, his wife in 1904, and another daughter in 1909. He expressed his pessimism about human character in such late works as the posthumously published Letters from the Earth (1962).

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Clemens ("merciful") is a Latin male name, also anglicised as Clement (see there). Clemens (or sometimes 'Klemens') may refer to:

People - family name

• Barry Clemens (b.1943), American basketball player
• Brian Clemens (b.1931), British screenwriter and television producer
• Clayton Clemens, American Professor of Government
• Dan Clemens (b.1945), American politician
• George T. Clemens (1902-1992), American cinematographer
• Isaac Clemens (1815-1880), Canadian farmer and politician
• Jacobus Clemens non Papa (c. 1510 to 1515 – 1555 or 1556), Franco-Flemish composer of the Renaissance
• James Clemens, author
• James Clemens, Jr. (1791-1878), a US Senator
• Jean Clemens (1880–1909), youngest daughter of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
• Jeremiah Clemens (1814-1865), U.S. senator and novelist
• Josef Clemens (b.1947), German bishop
• Joseph Clemens (1862-1936), American missionary and plant collector
• Joseph Clemens of Bavaria (1671-1723), German archbishop
• Karl Clemens (b.1942), Canadian clergyman
• Kellen Clemens (b.1983), American football player
• Koby Clemens (b.1986), American baseball player
• Marcus Arrecinus Clemens (1st century), Ancient Roman prefects of the Praetorian Guard
• Martin Clemens, British World War II soldier and Solomon Islands coastwatcher
• Mary Strong Clemens (1873-1968), American botanist and plant collector
• Olivia Langdon Clemens (1845-1904), wife of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
• Roger Clemens (b.1962), American baseball player
• Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835-1910), author, better known by his pen name Mark Twain
• Sherrard Clemens (1820-1881), American politician and lawyer
• Titus Flavius Clemens (consul), great-nephew of the Roman Emperor Vespasian and (as Flavius Clemens) a saint in the Greek Orthodox Church (Clement of Alexandria)
• William Clemens (1905-1980), American film director

People - given name

• Clemens Arnold (b.1978), German field hockey player
• Clemens Baeumker (1853-1924), German historian of philosophy
• Clemens Binninger (b.1962), German politician
• Clemens Bollen (b.1948), German politician
• Clemens Brentano (1778-1842), German poet and novelist
• Clemens Denhardt (1852-1929), German explorer of Africa
• Clemens Fritz (b.1980), German footballer
• Arno Clemens Gaebelein (1861-1945), Methodist minister
• Clemens Maria Hofbauer (1751–1820), patron saint of Vienna
• Clemens Holzmeister (1886–1983), Austrian architect
• Clemens Kalischer (b.1921), German-American photographer
• Clemens Klotz (1886-1969), German architect
• Clemens Krauss (1893-1954), Austrian conductor
• Clemens August Graf von Galen (1878-1946), German count, Bishop of Münster, and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church
• Clemens von Pirquet (1874–1929), Austrian scientist and pediatrician
• Clemens Wenceslaus of Saxony (1739-1812), German Archbishop
• Clemens Westerhof (b.1940), Dutch football manager
• Clemens Wilmenrod (1906-1967), German television cook
• Clemens Winkler (1838-1904), German chemist
• Clemens Wohlmuth (b.1969), Austrian businessman

Places

• Mount Clemens, Michigan, American city
• Mount Clemens High School
• Munsinger Gardens and Clemens Gardens, gardens in St Cloud, Minnesota, USA

Other

• See Cambridge Latin Course for Clemens, a fictional slave
• Clemens church, Swedish church building
• Clemens Family Corporation, American holding company
• Dr. Jonathon Clemens, a character in the 1992 film Alien 3 played by the British Actor Charles Dance

See also

• Clemons %28surname%29
• Clemons