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Đuka Mandić
(1822–1892)
BIRTH
1822
PLACE
Tomingaj near Gračac, Lika, Austrian Empire
NAME
Georgina Mandić
DEATH
1892
PLACE
Gospić, Lika, Austria-Hungary
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Milutin Tesla
(1819–1879)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
CHRISTIAN
EASTERN ORTHODOX
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Georgina “Đuka” Mandić Tesla was Nikola Tesla’s mother. She came from a family of Serbian Orthodox clergy and made practical household devices.
EARLY LIFE
Family accounts remember her mechanical inventiveness and facility for memorizing oral poetry, influences Nikola Tesla later acknowledged.
CAREER
DEATH
Georgina 'Đuka' Mandić Tesla died in Gospić in 1892. Her son Nikola later credited her skill at making practical household devices as an influence on his own inventiveness.
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