'{{short description|Philadelphia typesetter said to have had the longest name ever used}} {{Infobox person | name = Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. | image = Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff.png | caption = {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} in 1964 | birth_date = {{Circa}} {{birth date|1914|08|04|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Bergedorf]], [[German Empire|Germany]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1997|10|24|1914|08|04|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]], U.S. | nationality = German | occupation = [[Typesetter]] | partner = Constance<ref name="goldstein" /><!-- unmarried life partner; use ''Name (1950–present)'' --> | children = Hubert Blaine {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} Jr. <br/> Timothy Wayne {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}<ref name="goldstein" /> | parents = Elvis {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} }} '''Hubert Blaine {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} Sr.''' (a.k.a. '''Hubert Wolfstern''',<ref name="bbc" /> '''Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr.''',<ref name="borgmann" /> '''Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr.''',<ref name="g85" /> and '''Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr.''',<ref name="lutz" /> among others) is the abbreviated name of a German-born American [[typesetting|typesetter]] who has held the record for the longest [[personal name]] ever used. Hubert's name is made up from 27 names. Each of his 26 [[given name]]s starts with a different letter of the [[English alphabet]] in alphabetical order; these are followed by a long single-word [[last name]]. The exact length and spelling of his name has been a subject of considerable confusion due in part to its various renderings over the years, many of which are plagued by typographical errors. One of the longest and most reliable published versions, with a 666-letter surname, is as follows: {{quote|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 {{shy|Wolfeschlegel|steinhausen|bergerdorff|welche|vor|altern|waren|gewissenhaft|schafers|wessen|schafe|waren|wohl|gepflege|und|sorgfaltigkeit|beschutzen|vor|angreifen|durch|ihr|raubgierig|feinde|welche|vor|altern|zwolfhundert|tausend|jahres|voran|die|erscheinen|von|der|erste|erdemensch|der|raumschiff|genacht|mit|tungstein|und|sieben|iridium|elektrisch|motors|gebrauch|licht|als|sein|ursprung|von|kraft|gestart|sein|lange|fahrt|hinzwischen|sternartig|raum|auf|der|suchen|nachbarschaft|der|stern|welche|gehabt|bewohnbar|planeten|kreise|drehen|sich|und|wohin|der|neue|rasse|von|verstandig|menschlichkeit|konnte|fortpflanzen|und|sich|erfreuen|an|lebenslanglich|freude|und|ruhe|mit|nicht|ein|furcht|vor|angreifen|vor|anderer|intelligent|geschopfs|von|hinzwischen|sternartig|raum}} Sr.<ref name="borgmann" />{{efn|name=lastname-format}}}} While the [[Guinness World Records]] verified the version as follows: {{quote|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 {{shy|Wolfeschlegelsteinhausen|bergerdorff|welche|vor|altern|waren|gewissenhaft|schafers|wessen|schafe|waren|wohl|gepflege|und|sorgfaltigkeit|beschutzen|von|angreifen|durch|ihr|raubgierig|feinde|welche|vor|altern|zwolf|tausend|jahres|voran|die|erscheinen|van|der|erste|erdemensch|der|raumschiff|gebrauch|licht|als|sein|ursprung|von|kraft|gestart|sein|lange|fahrt|hinzwischen|sternartig|raum|auf|der|suchen|ach|die|stern|welche|gehabt|bewohnbar|planeten|kreise|drehen|sich|und|wohin|der|neu|rasse|von|verstandig|menschlichkeit|konnte|fortpflanzen|und|sich|erfreuen|an|lebenslanglich|freude|und|ruhe|mit|nicht|ein|furcht|vor|angreifen|von|anderer|intelligent|geschopfs|von|hinzwischen|sternartig|raum}}.<ref name="guinnessweb" />}} ==Biography== {{Spoken Wikipedia|En-Wolfe+585, Senior2.ogg|date=2013-10-12}} {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} was born in [[Bergedorf (quarter)|Bergedorf]] (now part of [[Hamburg]]), Germany, and later emigrated to the United States, settling in [[Philadelphia]].<ref name="g85" /> His birthdate has been given as February 29, 1904,<ref name="g85" /><ref name="hook" /> but he was also reported to be age 47 in a 1964 wire story,<ref name="goldstein" /> and Philadelphia County death records list a birthdate of August 4, 1914.<ref name="death" /> He became a typesetter according to [[Bennett Cerf]].<ref name="cerf" /> His name first attracted attention when it appeared in the 1938 Philadelphia telephone directory on page 1292, column 3, line 17,<ref name="shingle" />{{rp|140}} and in a court order of judge John Boyle of May 25, 1938: "''{{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}, Jr., etc., vs. [[Yellow Cab Company|Yellow Cab]] Co.'', petition for compromise settlement granted"—with speculation that the case was settled because "they couldn't pronounce it".<ref name="shingle" />{{rp|150}} A son, Hubert Blaine {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} Jr., was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and was able to pronounce his surname by age three.<ref name="gettysburg" /> Family letterhead used the form "Hubert Blaine {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}".<ref name="hook" /> When ''[[Philadelphia Inquirer]]'' journalist [[Frank Brookhouser]] omitted the letter "u" in reporting a 1952 Philadelphia voter registration under the 35-letter version of the surname, {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}'s prompt correction was carried by ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''<ref name="time" /> and passed on to other outlets.<ref name="vaughn" /> Philadelphia's business computers used an abbreviated form on the city's voting registration books; the utility company, however, when told he would not pay his bill unless his name was right, began spelling it properly, on three lines.<ref name="aj" /> Brookhouser later responded by tributing the correctly spelled {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} as the exemplar Philadelphian named in the first sentence of his ''Our Philadelphia'', comparing him to another local typesetter, [[Benjamin Franklin]]: {{quote|Philadelphia, home of Hubert B. {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}, Sr.—like Benjamin Franklin a typesetter—and 2,071,604 other residents according to the last official census in 1950, is the third largest city in the United States of America and the biggest small town in the world.<ref name="brookhouser" />}} The executive secretary-treasurer of the American Name Society also provided a 163-letter spelling of the surname: "''{{shy|Wolfeschlegel|steinhausen|bergerdorff|vor|altern|waren|gewissenhaft|schafers|wessen|schafts|waren|wohl|gefuttern|und|sorgfaltigkeit|beschutzen|vor|angreifen|durch|ihr|raubgierig|fiends}}''", stating that this was his "full name as given ... at birth on the envelope".<ref name="kramer" /> This spelling was reproduced verbatim by the ''Maryland and Delaware Genealogist''.<ref name="clark" /> In 1964, a widely reprinted [[Associated Press]] wire story reported that the [[IBM 7074]] computer at the [[John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.]] could process one million policies but refused to handle that of {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}, which was specially processed by hand.<ref name="goldstein" /> He explained to reporter Norman Goldstein, "When somebody calls my name, I don't have any trouble finding out who they mean ... I don't like being part of the common herd."<ref name="goldstein" /> The article includes a 666-letter version of the surname, though individual newspapers which ran it made numerous typographical errors, making it difficult to ascertain which renderings (if any) are correct.<ref name="borgmann" /> [[Logology (linguistics)|Logologist]] [[Dmitri Borgmann]] devoted several pages to the unusually long name in his 1965 book ''[[Language on Vacation]]''. According to Borgmann, the name had never before appeared correctly and in full in any book, and its bearer himself usually signed his name as "Hubert B. Wolfe + 666, Sr.".<ref name="borgmann" /><ref name="borgmann2" /> The long-form version reproduced in ''Language on Vacation'' is said to have come from {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}}'s 1963 [[Christmas card]], and to be the form in which it was submitted to the Associated Press for publication.<ref name="borgmann" /> [[Onomastics|Onomastician]] Elsdon C. Smith, writing in ''Treasury of Name Lore'', provides a 161-letter version of the surname, "''{{shy|Wolfeschlegel|steinhausen|bergerdorff|vor|altern|waren|gewissenhaft|schafers|wessen|schafs|waren|wohl|gefuttern|und|sorgfalugkeit|beschutzen|vor|angreifen|durch|ihr|raubgierig|feinds}}''", but noted that its holder used only the 35-letter version in correspondence with him. Smith affirmed the personal name was the longest in the United States but implied that {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} was a publicity seeker for adopting it.<ref name="smithtreasury" /> Between 1975 and 1985, {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} appeared in the ''[[Guinness Book of World Records]]'' as having the longest personal name, and was photographed for the book in front of a [[New York City]] marquee displaying his name, once again misspelled.<ref name="g81" /> He also made personal appearances in television shows based on the ''Guinness Book''.<ref name="bbc" /><ref name="frost" /> By 1983, only the 35-letter form of the name appeared in the book. Various editions claimed he had recently shortened his surname to "Wolfe+585, Senior"<ref name="g85" /> or to "Wolfe+590, Senior". By the 1990 edition, the "longest name" category had disappeared altogether.<ref name="g90" /> Since 2021, the name is present in category "Longest personal name".<ref name="guinnessweb" /> In 1983, ''[[The National Enquirer]]'' reported that the winner of its competition to find America's longest name was SnowOwl Sor-Lokken (born 1979), whose [[Washington (state)|Washington]] birth certificate gives her first name as a concatenation of ''Snowowl'' with a version of ''{{shy|wolfeschlegel|steinhausen|bergerdorff...}}'' for a total length reported as 598 letters in the next edition of the ''Guinness Book''.<ref name="SnowOwl">{{multiref|''National Enquirer'' cited in {{cite journal |date=March 1983 |title=Hard Times : Little Girl With A Big Name That Goes OnAndOnAndOn |journal=Penthouse |volume=14 |number=7 |page=121 }}| {{cite book |last1=McWhirter |first1=Norris |title=Guinness Book of Records 1984 |date=1983 |edition=30th UK |publisher=Guinness Superlatives |location=Enfield |page=95 |chapter=Personal Names; Longest single name |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/guinnessbookofr00mcwh/page/95 |isbn=0-85112-260-4 }} }}</ref> Sor-Lokken's father said he wanted "to throw a monkey wrench into the government bureaucracy".<ref name="SnowOwl"/> Her given-name length record was broken in 1984.<ref name="hook"/><ref>{{cite tweet |user=GWR |author=Guinness World Records |number=1313060109451440128 |date=5 October 2020 |title=The longest name to appear on a birth certificate is {{shy|Rhoshan|diatelly|neshiaun|neveshenk}} {{shy|Koyaanis|quatsiuth}} Williams. |quote=#OTD in 1984, her father looked to extend her first name to 1,019 letters and her middle name to 36 letters. }}</ref> {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} has also been catalogued by logologist [[Gyles Brandreth]]<ref name="brandreth" /> and by ''The Book of Useless Information''.<ref name="botham" /> ==Origin and translation of surname== {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} claimed that his great-grandfather composed the surname in the 19th century, when German Jews were obliged to take a second name.<ref name="gettysburg2" /> In some printings of the above-noted AP wire story, {{shy|Wolfe|schlegel|stein|hausen|berger|dorff}} himself provided the following explanation of his prodigious surname:<ref name="tuscaloosa" /> {{quote|It tells a story of a wolf-killer, a resident of a stonehouse in a village, whose ancestors were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well fed and carefully guarded against attack by ferocious enemies and whose ancestors 1,200,000 years before the first earth man, in a space ship made with tungsten and seven iridium motors and using light as a source of power, started a long journey across interstellar space, searching for a star around which was an inhabitable planet where they could establish a new race of intelligent mankind and where they would live long, happy lives and be free from attack by other intelligentsia from the outer space from whence they came.}} [[Dmitri Borgmann]], a fellow emigrant from Germany, held that the 666-letter version of the surname was untranslatable due to its numerous grammatical and spelling errors, but offered his own paraphrase:<ref name="borgmann" /> {{quote|Ages ago, there were conscientious shepherds whose sheep were well tended and carefully protected against attack by their rapacious enemies. Twelve hundred thousand years ago there appeared before these first earthmen, at night, a spaceship powered by seven stone and iridium electric motors. It had originally been launched on its long trip into stellar space in the search for neighboring stars that might have planets revolving about them that were inhabitable and on which planets a new race of intelligent humanity might propagate itself and rejoice for life, without fear of attack by other intelligent beings from interstellar space.}} The ''New Dictionary of American Family Names'' translates the 35-letter form as "a descendant of Wolfeschlegelstein (one who prepared wool for manufacture on a stone), of the house of [[Bergedorf|Bergerdorf]] (mountain village)";<ref name="smith" /> the [[Fairleigh Dickinson University]] Names Institute gives "wolf slayer who lives in the stone house in the mountain village".<ref name="fdu" /> ==See also== * [[Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft]], the name of a supposed suborganization of the [[Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaft]], in [[Vienna, Austria]], that the ''Guinness Book of World Records'' of 1999 said was the longest published word found in the [[German language]] * [[Llanfairpwllgwyngyll|Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch]], the name of a large village and community on the island of [[Anglesey]] in [[Wales]] that is the longest place name in Europe and the second longest official one-word place name in the world. * [[Rinderkennzeichnungs- und Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz]], the name of a state law in Germany (passed in 1999, repealed in 2013) that exhibited an extreme degree of the type of compounding of nouns that can occur in Germanic languages * [[Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu]], the Māori name for a hill in New Zealand * [[Mary Kawena Pukui|Mary Abigail Kawenaʻulaokalaniahiʻiakaikapoliopele Naleilehuaapele Wiggin Pukui]], a Hawaiian scholar, author, composer, hula expert and educator * [[Leone Sextus Tollemache|Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache]], British Army captain in World War I. * [[Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón|Alfonso María Isabel Francisco Eugenio Gabriel Pedro Sebastián Pelayo Fernando Francisco de Paula Pío Miguel Rafael Juan José Joaquín Ana Zacarias Elisabeth Simeón Tereso Pedro Pablo Tadeo Santiago Simón Lucas Juan Mateo Andrés Bartolomé Ambrosio Geronimo Agustín Bernardo Candido Gerardo Luis-Gonzaga Filomeno Camilo Cayetano Andrés-Avelino Bruno Joaquín-Picolimini Felipe Luis-Rey-de-Francia Ricardo Esteban-Protomártir Genaro Nicolás Estanislao-de-Koska Lorenzo Vicente Crisostomo Cristano Darío Ignacio Francisco-Javier Francisco-de-Borja Higona Clemente Esteban-de-Hungría Ladislado Enrique Ildefonso Hermenegildo Carlos-Borromeo Eduardo Francisco-Régis Vicente-Ferrer Pascual Miguel-de-los-Santos Adriano Venancio Valentín Benito José-Oriol Domingo Florencio Alfacio Benére Domingo-de-Silos Ramón Isidro Manuel Antonio Todos-los-Santos de Borbón y Borbón]], Spanish nobleman with 88 forenames ==Notes== {{notelist|refs= {{efn|name=lastname-format|The following formatting may increase the legibility of the last name:{{quote|Wolfeschlegel-Steinhausen-Bergerdorff, welche Vorältern waren gewissenhaft Schäfers, wessen Schafe waren wohl, gepflege und sorgfältigkeit beschützen vor Angreifen durch ihr raubgierig Feinde, welche Vorältern, zwölfhunderttausend Jahres voran die Erscheinen von der erste Erdemensch, der Raumschiff genacht mit Tungstein und sieben Iridium elektrisch Motors, gebrauch Licht als sein Ursprung von Kraft, gestart sein lange Fahrt hinzwischen sternartig Raum auf der Suchen Nachbarschaft der Stern, welche gehabt bewohnbar Planeten, Kreise drehen sich, und wohin der neue Rasse von verständig Menschlichkeit konnte fortpflanzen und sich erfreuen an lebenslänglich Freude und Ruhe, mit nicht ein Furcht vor Angreifen vor anderer intelligent Geschöpfs von hinzwischen sternatig Raum.}}}} }} ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref 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Institute|year=2002|pages=263–264}}</ref> <ref name="borgmann2">{{cite journal |last=Borgmann |first=Dmitri A. |author-link=Dmitri Borgmann |date=February 1968 |title=The Longest Word |url=http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol1/iss1/13/ |journal=[[Word Ways: The Journal of Recreational Linguistics]] |publisher=[[Greenwood Periodicals]] |volume=1 |issue=1 |pages=33–35 |access-date=2015-05-21}}</ref> <ref name="tuscaloosa">{{cite news|author=<!-- Norman Goldstein (uncredited) -->|title=What's in A Name? Ask Him|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1817&dat=19640625&id=Kg4fAAAAIBAJ&pg=1061,3243304&hl=en|newspaper=The Tuscaloosa|date=June 25, 1964}}</ref> <ref name="frost">{{cite news|author=<!-- Staff writers; no byline -->|title=Frost Presents World Records |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/68518139/ |newspaper=[[Florence Morning News]] |access-date=2015-06-03 |date=1974-07-26 |page=60}}</ref> <ref name="gettysburg2">{{cite news|author=<!-- Staff writers; no byline -->|title=Find Man In Phila. With Longest Name |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2202&dat=19730912&id=tIolAAAAIBAJ&pg=998,4037400&hl=en |newspaper=[[Gettysburg Times]] |access-date=2015-06-03 |date=1973-09-12 |page=17}}</ref> <ref name="lutz">{{cite news|author=Lutz, Bobbie |title=What's in a Name? Maybe a Problem—If the Moniker's Bolivar Shagnasty|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/29586136/ |newspaper=[[Amarillo Globe-News|The Amarillo Globe-Times]] |access-date=2015-06-05 |date=1969-05-21 |page=9}}</ref> <ref name="bbc">{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=The Record Breakers |url=http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ea3cb02517284d59a083bd4b03c66621 |journal=[[Radio Times]] |volume=208 |number=2701 |location=London |publisher=[[BBC Magazines]] |date=1975-08-14 |access-date=2015-06-03 }}</ref> <ref name="death">{{cite web|title=Hubert Wolfstern Death Record|url=http://death-records.mooseroots.com/d/n/Hubert-Wolfstern|website=MooseRoots|publisher=Graphiq|access-date=30 December 2016}}</ref> |2}} ==External links== {{Commons category inline|Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Hubert Blaine Sr.}} [[Category:1910s births]] [[Category:1997 deaths]] [[Category:20th-century German Jews]] [[Category:Immigrants to the United States]] [[Category:Jews from Hamburg]] [[Category:Longest things]] [[Category:Names by person]] [[Category:People from Hamburg]] [[Category:People from Philadelphia]] [[Category:Typesetters]] [[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]'