The Longest Name EVER!
It’s amazing how having a kid takes you out of the loop for a while. Thanks to everyone who’s been commenting and reading. Now it’s onward and upward.
Last week I ran across this article in Mental Floss magazine that’s apropos.
When I was researching The Book I actually came across this name (the longest name in recorded history, supposedly), 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 Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenberger-
dorffvoralternwarengewissenhaftschaferswessenschafewaren-
wohlgepflegeundsorgfaltigkeitbeschutzenvonangreifendurch-
ihrraubgierigfeindewelchevoralternzwolftausendjahresvoran-
dieerscheinenwanderersteerdemenschderraumschiffgebrauch-
lichtalsseinursprungvonkraftgestartseinlangefahrthinzwischen-
sternartigraumaufdersuchenachdiesternwelchegehabtbewohn-
barplanetenkreisedrehensichundwohinderneurassevonver-
standigmenschlichkeitkonntefortplanzenundsicherfreuenan-
lebenslanglichfreudeundruhemitnichteinfurchtvorangreifenvon-
andererintelligentgeschopfsvonhinzwischensternartigraum, Senior. In fact, I ran across it several times, though I could never verify where it came from. So this is nice, though I still haven’t found any actual proof of it. Then again, proof just kind of ruins good legends, doesn’t it?
Posted: March 24th, 2008 under Name Fun, Name Media.
Comments: 10
i can’t even say it and i’m 12!
ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! WHO WOULD NAME A KID THAT!!
it’s so long
This is german. And from what it says, I’m guessing it isn’t part of his name but actually a description of who he is or something to that effect. It talks about sheperds being worried about attacks. I didn’t read the whole thing because without spaces and umlauts it is hard.
wow… that is certainly strange, and long, but i agree with the last comment, it does seem to be about the person
The third line down mentions “twelve thousand years.” It looks like a small bit of literary prose that had all the spaces taken out of it.
It’s not even a particularly poetic piece of prose, I might add. Looks like it was taken from some sort of science fiction novel, as it’s talking about mass exodus from an endangered planet into space. Yeah. Mmm-hmm.
Hubert Wolfschlegelstein et cetera was in the Philadelphia telephone directory in the 1950s and 1960s.
Obviously, they only listed his name as Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff. If Verizon has records, they could verify that he lived in Philadelphia. I hope he’s still around, but am as curious as anyone else how they will memorialize him.
Tis cant be real the middle names are the alphabet look
Adolf Blaine Charles David
A B C D ect
who the hell would name there child that