Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.

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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr. (born August 4, 1914 in Bergedorf near Hamburg ; † October 24, 1997 in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania ) was an American who held the record for the longest family name ever given and thus in the Guinness Book of Records was represented.

Life

Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff was born in Bergedorf (today a district of Hamburg ). February 29, 1904 is also often mentioned as the date of birth. He later emigrated to the United States and settled in Philadelphia . He worked as a typesetter and entered the US Army in 1942 .

Surname

His full name first appeared in the Philadelphia phone book in 1938 and in a court order dated May 25 of that year.

According to an article in the Gettysburg Times, his son Hubert Blaine Jr. (* 1952) was able to spell the full family name at the age of three. He also has a second son named Timothy Wayne.

Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff had a total of 26 first names, one for each letter of the alphabet. The length of his family name varies between 590 and 666 letters, depending on the source. His full name was:

Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffwelchevoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafewarenwohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvorangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolfhunderttausendjahresvorandieerscheinenvonderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgenachtmittungsteinundsiebeniridiumelektrischmotorsgebrauchlichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischensternartigraumaufdersuchennachbarschaftdersternwelchegehabtbewohnbarplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneuerassevonverstandigmenschlichkeitkonntefortpflanzenundsicherfreuenanlebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvorandererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum, senior.

As a nickname he chose his eighth (Hubert) and his middle name (Blaine). He usually shortened his family name to Wolfe + 585, senior .

In the 1970s and 1980s Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff was regularly represented with an entry in the Guinness Book of Records , although the length of his name again varied. The “Longest Name” category was later removed from the Guinness Book.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Norris McWhirter: Guinness book of world records 1978. Bantam Books 1978, ISBN 0-553-1125-54 , p. 207.