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Jakob Fugger of the Lily ( German: Jakob Fugger von der Lilie; 6 March 1459 – 30 December 1525), also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or sometimes Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker.
Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger, born in 1459, was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. In 1498, he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg ( German: Großbürger zu Augsburg ).
Jun 8, 2022 · Jakob the Rich may have been the economic savant who catapulted the family fortune to newfound heights, but the Fugger fortune wasn’t built on the shoulders of one man.
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Jul 26, 2015 · Jacob Fugger was born in 1459 in Augsburg, Germany, a bustling city of the time where “markets overflowed with everything from ostrich eggs to the skulls of saints,” and “ladies brought...
Feb 28, 2017 · Greg Steinmetz is a journalist with a passion for the past, whose recent work The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, focuses on the influential and bold (but not particularly likeable) sixteenth-century German banker Jakob Fugger (1459-1525).
Aug 9, 2016 · In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history. Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP.
May 2, 2017 · Jacob Fugger was a German banker who financed kings, explorers, bishops and popes — and along the way made the biggest fortune ever amassed by a business person.
Oct 16, 2021 · Jacob Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP.
The Fuggerei is the world's oldest public housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Younger (known as "Jakob Fugger the Rich") as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed.
