Background
He was the son of German theologian August Detlev Christian Twesten.
He was the son of German theologian August Detlev Christian Twesten.
Humboldt University of Berlin. University of Heidelberg.
He became connected with the judicial service, and was one of the founders of the progressive party, which in 1861 involved him in a duel with General Edwin von Manteuffel, in which he lost his right arm. Persecuted for advocating the fullest parliamentary freedom, he retired in 1868 after being fined.
In the same year, he was elected to the Prussian chamber of deputies (German: Preußisches Abgeordnetenhaus), and he was one of the founders of the National Liberal Party and an early member of the North German Reichstag (German: Reichstag des Norddeutscher Bundes).