| Jelisaveta Veljkovic | |
 Jelisaveta Veljkovic on her 107th birthday in 2011 | |
| Birth: | 18 July 1904 Ravna Gora, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) |
| Death: | 20 October 2016 Belgrade, Serbia |
| Age: | 112 years, 94 days |
| Country: |  CRO SRB
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| Validated | |
Jelisaveta Veljkovic (Serbian: Јелисавета Вељковић] (née Vicenca Kufner; 18 July 1904 – 20 October 2016) was a Croatian-born Serbian supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is the oldest known person who ever died in Serbia and the oldest person who was born in the territory of present-day Croatia.
Biography[]
Jelisaveta Veljkovic was born as Vicenca Kufner in Ravna Gora, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Austria-Hungary, (now Croatia) on 18 July 1904. She was the second of seven children born into an Italian-Austrian family to father Emerik Kufner and mother Antonija Leš. She finished five grades of elementary school.
In 1920, at the age of 16, she moved to Belgrade (present-day capital of Serbia, then Kingdom of Yugoslavia) with a friends. In Belgrade, she met her future husband, Stanislav Veljković, who was a decorator of the National Theater, who lived next door. They got married when she was 20, and the couple had 12 children. Following her marriage, she changed her first name to Jelisaveta (a Serbian name) and converted into an Orthodox Christian.
Her husband died in 1983. At the age of 90, she had a cataract surgery. One of her aunts lived to be 103, and one uncle to 104.
She became the oldest known living woman in Serbia, following the death of 108-year-old Mileva Grbic on 31 October 2010. Following the death of 109-year-old Jovo Latinovic on 15 April 2011, she became and the oldest living person in Serbia.
In July 2014, she celebrated her 110th birthday and became the first known person in Serbia who turned 110, and later the first person from Croatia and Serbia who turned 111 and 112 years. At the age of 112, she had seven living children, 10 grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter.
Jelisaveta Veljkovic died in Belgrade, Serbia on 20 October 2016 at the age of 112 years, 94 days. Following her death, then 107-year-old Mara Radenkovic became the oldest known living person in Serbia.
Her age was verified by GRG-Serbia Correspondent Dejan Vujic, and (posthumously) validated by the GRG on 7 October 2023.
Gallery[]
References[]
- 2023 validations Gerontology Research Group
- List of validated supercentenarians in Serbia Gerontology Research Group
- Jelisaveta Veljković (1904–2016) Gerontology Research Group
- Baka od 107 godina najstarija žiteljka Savskog venca Blic, 4 November 2011
- Beograd: Proslavila 108. rođendan Novosti, 18 July 2012
- Јелисавета Вељковић, вршњакиња „Политике” Politika, 22 July 2014
- Goranka Cenka jedna od najstarijih žena na svijetu Novi list, 8 May 2016
- ROĐENDAN NAJSTARIJE BEOGRAĐANKE Baka Cenka napunila 112 godina Blic, 18 July 2016
- U 113. godini preminula najstarija Beograđanka RTS, 22 October 2016
- U BEOGRADU UMRLA JEDNA OD NAJSTARIJIH ŽENA NA SVIJETU Rođena je u Gorskom kotaru, bila je svjedok vremena, a samo je jednom u životu bila bolesna Jutarnji list, 22 October 2016
| Serbia’s Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E) |
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Rade Grujicic • Kostadinka Momirovic • Jovo Latinovic • Jelisaveta Veljkovic • Mara Radenkovic • Darinka Jandric • Nadezda Pavlovic • Tamara Krutikov • Milka Baukovic |