Nikola Koprivica | |
Koprivica (aged 104) in December 1961 | |
Birth: | 1857 Vogosca, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Death: | 1966 Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina |
Age: | 108 years, 149+ days |
Country: | BIH |
Centenarian |
Nikola Koprivica [Bosnian: Никола Копривица] (1857 – 1966) was a Bosnian centenarian who was the oldest known living person in Yugoslavia and present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina at the time of his death. He was also a great hero and freedom fighter, a fearless fighter against a foreign occupier and an eternal rebel against injustice.
Biography[]
Nikola was born in 1857 in the village of Vogosca near Sarajevo, where his father and a group of relatives moved from Banjani.
On Vidovdan 1914 in Sarajevo, as a member of the liberation organization "Young Bosnia", Nikola Koprivica participated with numerous comrades in the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. His wife Sofia blamed him for this much-written operation.
Koprivica died in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1966 at the claimed age of 108 years.