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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]
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(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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To be told by Rome that he was suspect for heresy, then that he was a notorious heretic; to defend himself in the home of the Fugger bankers at Augsburg in an interview with the able Dominican Cardinal Cajetan (was there a treasure of the Church from which popes could dispense pardons?
Owen Chadwick. The Early Reformation on the Continent by Karant-Nunn, Susan C. / Renaissance Quarterly
In his book, Publishing Newsletters, Howard Penn Hudson says the first known examples of newsletters are the hand-written business news sheets developed by Count Philip Edward Fugger (1546-1618).
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Fugger and his colleagues at the Genetics & IVF Institute began their study by recruiting 119 couples who wanted a baby girl.
It's a Girl! by FACKELMANN, KATHLEEN / Science News
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