This guy – Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr., for short – is credited with having actively used what is said to be the longest personal name in the world. Of course, its derivation is German, so it could conceivably go on forever, like pi. Needless to say, his life was a trail of typographical errors. You can wade through the full name by following the link below.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Blaine_Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff_Sr.
Philadelphia attracts some very strange people. (I offer this as a resident of over 30 years.)
What it reminds me of is this classic Monty Python sketch, about the neglected German baroque composer.
My best friend and I had this memorized when we were in the seventh grade.
NOTE: Even in its shortened form, Hubert’s surname caused my computer to parse it out. As I cut-and-pasted my post from a Word document, there appeared several artificial breaks, signified by little perpendicular symbols, since removed!
