Jiroemon Kimura
Jiroemon Kimura ( Japanese 木村 次郎 右衛門 Kimura Jiroemon ; born April 19, 1897 in Kamiukawa, Takeno-gun (now Kyōtango ); † June 12, 2013 ibid.) Was a Japanese age record holder. Since 2012 he has held the record for the highest reached age of a man . He was the first and so far only man who reached the age of 116 years.
Life
He was born as the child of the rice and vegetable farmers Morizo and Fusa Miyake in the village of Kamiukawa and was given the name Kinjirō Miyake ( 三 宅 金治郎 ). He took the name Jiroemon Kimura because his wife's family did not have a male heir, making him the ninth bearer of this name. Kimura worked for the post office for 40 years until he retired and then kept fit with farming until he was 90. He had 7 children, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 14 or 15 great-great-grandchildren. Kimura last lived with the family of one of his grandchildren in his native Kyōtango and died in a hospital.
Kimura was born on April 19, 1897 and lived for a lifespan of 116 years and 54 days. He exceeded Christian Mortensen's previous male age record on December 28, 2012. Since Walter Breuning's death in April 2011, Kimura was considered the oldest living man and also the only living man with a confirmed date of birth before 1900. Since December 17th In 2012 he was also the oldest living person. Since the death of 113-year-old James Sisnett on May 23, 2013, Kimura was the last living man to be born in the 19th century and thus lived for three centuries .
His hometown Kyōtango has initiated a research project to clarify the question of why more than one hundred of its 60,000 residents are over 100 years old.
See also
Web links
- Yasuyuki Gondo, Nobuyoshi Hirose, Saori Yasumoto, Yasumichi Arai, Yasuhiko Saito: Age verification of the longest lived man in the world in Experimental Gerontology, Volume 99, 1 December 2017, Pages 7-17
- Japanese 115-Year-Old Becomes Oldest Man in History
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: Jiroemon Kimura - oldest man in the world dies in Japan at the age of 116 . In: Abendblatt.de . Hamburger Abendblatt. June 12, 2013. Archived from the original on April 8, 2015. Retrieved on April 8, 2015.
- ^ Spiegel Online -Author ala: Born 1897: The oldest person in the world has died . In: Spiegel Online . June 12, 2013. Archived from the original on April 8, 2015. Retrieved on April 8, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kimura, Jiroemon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 木村 次郎 右衛門 (Japanese); Miyake, Kinjirō (maiden name); 三 宅 金治郎 (maiden name, Japanese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese age record holder |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kamiukawa |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 12th, 2013 |
| Place of death | Kyōtango |