Absent-minded professor

Posted by SR on September 23, 2004

In Reply to: Absent-minded professor posted by lee young on September 23, 2004

: Could anyone tell me how "absent-minded professor" first started out?

: thanks

Johann Georg August Galletti (* August 19 1750 in Altenburg; March 16 1828 in Gotha) was an German historian and geographer. In the present Galletti's fame is not based on his merits as a academic, but on his reputation as a creator of a few hundreds of stylistic howlers becoming a legend as Kathederblüten (teacher's howlers) originated during his time as a grammar school professor in Gotha. So he was named the absent-minded professor of Gotha.

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It is also a Disney movie from 1961 starring Fred MacMurray and "Flubber."