After the death of 112-year-old Briton Bob Wayton, 111-year-old resident of the Romanian city of Bucharest Dumitru Comanescu became the oldest man in the world. The secret of its longevity was revealed by the site Romania-Insider.com.
According to a press release from the Bucharest Center for the Elderly, Comanescu has been named the oldest man by the Research Gerontology Group (GRG), a global group of multidisciplinary researchers that screen and track super-centenarians.
Comanescu admitted that he considers the love of his wife, sons and grandchildren to be the secret of his longevity. The long-liver was born on November 8, 1908 in the commune of Provitsa de Jos, Prahova county. In his youth, he studied at the Faculty of Mathematics under the famous mathematician Gheorghe Ciceica, who is considered the founder of the Romanian school of differential geometry. Later Comanescu decided to change his specialty and began to study agriculture. After graduating from university, he worked for 70 years as an agricultural technician and plant disease specialist.
In February 2020, the Bucharest authorities declared Comanescu the oldest Romanian citizen living in Bucharest, paid him five thousand Romanian lei (80 thousand rubles) and handed him a commemorative plaque.
The death of Bob Wayton became known on May 28. He died of cancer at the age of 112 years and 60 days. The British became the owner of this title just three months ago after 112-year-old Chitetsu Watanabe died in Japan.
The oldest man who ever lived, according to official figures, is the Japanese Jiroemon Kimura, who lived 116 years and 54 days. The generally recognized record for longevity belongs to the Frenchwoman Jeanne Kalman, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days. Researchers are questioning her age.