Gerontology Wiki
Jiri Vysoudil
Jiri Vysoudil
Jiří Vysoudil on his 102nd birthday in 2014.
Birth: 8 August 1912
Bohuslavice, Hradec Králové Region, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic)
Death: 29 December 2017
Trutnov, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic
Age: 105 years, 143 days
Country: Czech RepublicCZE
Centenarian

Jiri Vysoudil [Czech: Jiří Vysoudil] (8 August 1912 – 29 December 2017) was a Czech centenarian who was the oldest known living man in the Czech Republic at the time of his death.

Biography[]

Jiří Vysoudil was born in Bohuslavice, Hradec Králové Region, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic), on 8 August 1912. At some point, he married and had two sons, and one daughter. He dedicated his life to the railway, where he worked for 42 years. He loved gardening, flowers, and for many years bees were his hobby. He worked in Liberec, Rumburk, and in 1945 he moved with his family to Trutnov. He never drank, or smoked.

On 14 January 2017, following the death of 106-year old Čeněk Petřík, he became the oldest known living man in Czech Republic.

Jiří Vysoudil died in Trutnov, Hradec Králové Region, Czech Republic, on 29 December 2017, at the age of 105 years, 143 days. Following his death, then 104-year-old an anonymous man of South Moravian Region became the oldest known living man in the Czech Republic.

References[]


Czech Republic's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (VE)

Adam Raj • Unknown • Ludvik PetrujAlois VocasekJulius KubelkaVojtech DvorskyStanislav VeceraJosef FlanderaGabriel MiksaKarel KasparekJan NitkaStanislav SpacilMartin KahunCenek PetrikJiri Vysoudil • Anonymous • Anonymous • Jan GomolaEduard MarekKarel Lavacek • Anonymous • Antonin Slenc