This article is about the antagonist of the Trelawney Thorpe stories. For professors, see Professor (disambiguation).
Professor LeMort (no given name) is the sworn enemy of Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm; or at least, in the popular series of books, he serves as her nemesis. He was mentioned in the Girl Genius Complete List of Absolutely Everybody! (2008?)
As shown in Trelawney Thorpe, Spark of the Realm in: The Crown of the Sleeping King, he specializes in zombies, including what appears to be a giant fanged earthworm he calls his "Conqueror Wyrm". His specific plot in Crown involves kidnapping Princess Urania and stealing the eponymous crown to make himself ruler of England.
Some of the epithets used to describe him are the "Dark Prince of Death" and the "Master of Mortus". He is shown as being fairly tall and ectomorphic, either prematurely aged or probably on the far side of 50; his hair appears to be white, and worn short with full sideburns, but with no mustache or beard. His Victorian-style clothes are fastened with or decorated with oval brooches depicting stylized deaths-heads.
This is a character in the Girl Genius universe, or at least a story told in that universe, that has not yet appeared, in any form, in the comic.