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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern,〔 Hubert B. Wolfe + 666, Sr.,〔 Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585, Sr.,〔 and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590, Sr.,〔 among others) is the abbreviated name of a typesetter who has held the record for the longest personal name ever used. Hubert's given name is made up from 26 names, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet in consecutive order; these are followed by an enormously long single-word surname. 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: ==Biography== Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff was born in Bergedorf (now part of Hamburg), Germany, and later emigrated to the United States, settling in Philadelphia.〔 His birthdate has been given as February 29, 1904,〔〔 but he was also reported to be age 47 in a 1964 wire story.〔 He became a typesetter, "logically enough", according to Bennett Cerf.〔 He is also known to have been a member of the American Name Society for a while,〔〔 and claimed to have been drafted into the American Army in 1942.〔 His name first attracted attention when it appeared in the 1938 Philadelphia telephone directory on page 1292, column 3, line 17,〔 and in a court order of judge John Boyle of May 25, 1938: "Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Jr., etc., vs. Yellow Cab Co., petition for compromise settlement granted"—with speculation that the case was settled because "they couldn't pronounce it".〔 A son, Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Jr., was born in Philadelphia in 1952, and was able to pronounce his surname by age three.〔 Family letterhead used the form "Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff".〔 When ''Inquirer'' journalist Frank Brookhouser omitted the letter "u" in reporting a 1952 Philadelphia voter registration under the 35-letter version of the surname, Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff's prompt correction was carried by ''Time''〔 and passed on to other outlets.〔 Philadelphia's business computers used an abbreviated form on the city's voting registration books; the utility company, however, when told he wouldn't pay his bill unless his name was right, began spelling it properly, on three lines.〔 Brookhouser later responded by tributing the correctly spelled Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff as the exemplar Philadelphian named in the first sentence of his ''Our Philadelphia'', comparing him to another local typesetter, Benjamin Franklin: The executive secretary-treasurer of the American Name Society also provided a 163-letter spelling of the surname: "Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschaftswarenwohlgefutternundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvorangreifendurchihrraubgierigfiends", stating that this was his "full name as given… at birth on the envelope".〔 This spelling was reproduced verbatim by the ''Maryland and Delaware Genealogist''.〔 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 Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, which was specially processed by hand.〔 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."〔 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.〔 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.".〔〔 The long-form version reproduced in ''Language on Vacation'' is said to have come from Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff's 1963 Christmas card, and to be the form in which it was submitted to the Associated Press for publication.〔 Onomastician Elsdon C. Smith, writing in ''Treasury of Name Lore'', provides a 161-letter version of the surname, "Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafswarenwohlgefutternundsorgfalugkeitbeschutzenvorangreifendurchihrraubgierigfeinds", 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 Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff was a publicity seeker for adopting it.〔 In the 1970s and 1980s, Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff 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.〔 He also made personal appearances in television shows based on the ''Guinness Book''.〔〔 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"〔 or to "Wolfe+590, Senior". By the 1990 edition, the "longest name" category had disappeared altogether.〔 Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff has also been catalogued by logologist Gyles Brandreth〔 and by ''The Book of Useless Information''.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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