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Hubert Blaine Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorff Sr. (a.k.a. Hubert Wolfstern, [3] Hubert B. Wolfe + 666 Sr., [4] Hubert Blaine Wolfe+585 Sr., [5] and Hubert Blaine Wolfe+590 Sr., [6] among others, 4 August 1914 – 24 October 1997) was a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used.
Often homeless, he claimed to be the author of the longest book ever written, An Oral History of the Contemporary World, also known as An Oral History of Our Time or Meo Tempore. He inspired the book Joe Gould's Secret (1965) by Joseph Mitchell, and its film adaptation (2000), and is a character in the 2009 computer game The Blackwell Convergence.
Name Lifespan Age Notability M. H. Abrams: 1912–2015: 102: American literary critic [1] Angelina Acuña: 1905–2006: 101: Guatemalan educator, writer and poet [2] Jacob Adler (aka: B. Kovner) 1874–1974: 100: Polish-born Jewish-American Yiddish writer, poet, and humorist [3] Nan Hayden Agle: 1905–2006: 100: American children's writer [4 ...
Written in shorthand. [22] The 1893 edition is available online. [23] Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine: 1 million: 61 years: 1878–1939: 12 volume diary. [24] Jean Lucey Pratt: 1 million: 61 years: 1925–1986: Over a million words in 45 exercise books. [25] Ernest Achey Loftus: Unknown: 91 years: 1896–1987: Guinness World Record for longest ...
A student with a name his university says was the “longest ever” read out a graduation ceremony has been awarded his degree from the University of Kent. Bolowatife Oluwasemilore Oluwadamilola ...
The novels were "two of the longest one-volume novels ever written" (nearly 700 pages each). [34] In these novels, Wolfe changed the name of his autobiographical character from Eugene Gant to George Webber.
Robert William Shields (May 17, 1918 – October 15, 2007) was an American minister and high school English teacher best known for writing a diary of 37.5 million words, which chronicled every five minutes of his life from 1972 until a stroke disabled him in 1997.
This is the longest word that can be written without a space. ... a German-born American typesetter who held the record for the longest personal name ever used (about ...