Hubert Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorf was a man with a last name that was 590 letters long (In the headline is the shortened version, you can hear the full version in the video above.) He was born in Hamburg, Germany (supposedly on February 29th, 1904) but emigrated to the US where he landed in Philly. He lived here and in 1952 had a son that he passed on the last name to. According to the Guiness book, he had the longest surname in the world. Does anyone know anything about his son? I’d love to know if he’s still in Philly.
Isn’t this a Monty Python sketch?
I know his son. He still lives in the Philadelphia area. He has mercifully shortened his last name to a reasonable nine letters.