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Fugger

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Fug·ger  (fgr)
Family of German financiers who exerted great economic and political influence in the 15th and 16th centuries. Founded by Johannes (1348-1409), the family business was greatly expanded by his son Jakob (died 1469).
Fugger (German) [ˈfʊgər]
n
(Biographies / X 15th- and 16th-century Europe) a German family of merchants and bankers, prominent in 15th- and 16th-century Europe
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Schulte, Die Fugger in Rom, 1495-1523: mit Studien zur Geschichte des lurchlichcn Einanzwesens jener Zeit (Leipzig, 1904), 1, 8; M- Vacs, "Les fondations hospitalieres fla-mandes a Rome du XVe au XVIIIe siecle," Bulletin de.
Factionalism and state power in the Flemish Revolt (1482-1492) by Haemers, Jelle / Journal of Social History
This discovery is the largest in Africa outside Egypt -- "The copper ingots are all marked with a trident indent, which was used by Germany's famous Fugger family of traders and bankers in Augsburg, who delivered to the Portuguese five centuries ago," said South African archaeologist Bruno Werz.
Namibia: Race against time to save ancient Portuguese shipwreck by AFP / AFP Global Edition
16) Both the extensive library and the collection of antiquities resulted from the efforts of Strada, Hans Jacob Fugger (1516-75), and Nicolo Stoppio (d.
The pursuit of art and pleasure in the secret grotto of Wilhelm V of ... by Maxwell, Susan / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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