FUGGER

foogˈər, German family of merchant princes. The foundation of their wealth was laid by Hans Fugger, allegedly a weaver, who moved to Augsburg in 1367. His descendants built up the family fortune by trade and banking. With Jacob Fugger II, 1459–1525, called Jacob the Rich, the house entered its zenith. It owned extensive real estate, merchant fleets, and palatial establishments throughout Europe. Jacob's fortune was largely built on a virtual monopoly in the mining and trading of silver, copper, and mercury. He lent immense sums to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and helped secure the election (1519) of Charles V as Holy Roman emperor by bribing the electors. Charles ennobled the family and granted them sovereign rights over their lands, including that of coining their own money. Then the richest family in Europe, the Fuggers were generous patrons of the arts and learning and philanthropists, notably at Augsburg, their residence. Under Raimund Fugger, 1489–1535, and Anton Fugger, 1493–1560, the house reached the limits of its power and fortune. Its decline paralleled that of the Hapsburgs, whose wars the Fuggers financed. Several descendants were prominent, but, except for some real estate, little is left of the once fabulous wealth.

See R. Ehrenberg, Capital and Finance in the Age of the Renaissance (tr. 1928); J. Strieder, Jacob Fugger the Rich (tr. 1931, repr. 1966); G. T. Matthews, ed., News and Rumor in Renaissance Europe: The Fugger Newsletters (1959).

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books on: Fugger  - 489 results

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Men of Wealth: The Story of Twelve Significant Fortunes from the Renaissance to the Present Day
Book by John T. Flynn; Simon and Schuster, 1941
Subjects: Biography
...Frescobaldi family, 87 Frick, Henry Clay, 380 , 383 , 402 , 507 Froebel, Friedrich, 148 Fugger, Andreas, 8 Fugger, Anton, 10 , 21 , 38 , 48 Fugger, George, 8 , 9 Fugger, Hans, 8 Fugger, Jacob the elder , 8 Fugger, Jacob "the Rich...
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Oedipus and the Devil: Witchcraft, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Modern Europe
Book by Lyndal Roper; Routledge, 1994
Subjects: Popular Culture--Europe--History, Sex Role--Europe--History, Witchcraft--Europe--History
14 Ehrenberg, Das Zeitalter der Fugger, vol. 1, pp. 88, 139, 196. 15 Polnitz and Kellenbenz, Anton Fugger, vol. 3, ii, pp. 357-9: Polnitz...see Gotz Freiherr von Polnitz, Die Fugger, 2nd edn, Frankfurt am Main 1960, pp...
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Gold & Spices: The Rise of Commerce in the Middle Ages
Book by Jean Favier, Caroline Higgitt; Holmes & Meier, 1998
Subjects: Europe--Commerce--History, Europe--Economic Conditions--To 1492, Merchants--Europe--History, Middle Ages--History
...service to the prince and trade as Jacob Fugger, the Augsburg merchant who became banker...Habsburgs. In the years before 1485 the Fugger family had established itself in the German...profits from the Tyrolean mines. Jacob Fugger knew how to make himself indispensable...
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The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems
Book by Susan Ronald; Wiley, 2005
...amber in their inventories. And like Fugger, the Affaitadi made com- mercial reports...same resources to market research like Fugger and Affaitadi called them both espionage...foreign rulers. These reports, like the Fugger newsletters, remain amazing sources of...
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The Rise of the European Economy: An Economic History of Continental Europe from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Book by Hermann Kellenbenz, Gerhard Benecke; Holmes & Meier, 1976
Subjects: Economic History--1600-1750, Economic History--16th Century, Europe--Economic Conditions
indulgences and fees. Fugger connections had helped finance the Church jubilee of 1500 and...Hungary, Poland and Scandinavia were transferred to Rome via Fugger. Jacob Fugger financed the benefices of Cardinal Albrecht of Hohenzollern...
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Foods and the Body in Italian Genre Paintings, about 1580: Campi, Passarotti, Carracci
Journal article by Sheila McTighe; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Art history, Campi, Vincenzo (1536-91), Carracci, Annibale, Italy, Painting, Passarotti, Bartolomeo, Visual artists
...produced by Vincenzo Campi for the wealthy Fugger family of Augsburg, comprises five paintings...clone for the immensely rich banker Hans Fugger, were a "sustained bawdy joke" for...arrangement is the Fruit Vendor from the Fugger series (Fig. 2), where the single...
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The Pursuit of Art and Pleasure in the Secret Grotto of Wilhelm V of Bavaria
Journal article by Susan Maxwell; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance--Appreciation, Architecture, Renaissance--Influence, Dukes--Homes and haunts, Historic gardens--Appreciation, Historic gardens--Design and construction, Historic gardens--Influence, Renaissance architecture--Appreciation, Renaissance architecture--Influence, Wilhelm V, Duke of Bavaria--Homes and haunts
...from the efforts of Strada, Hans Jacob Fugger (1516-75), and Nicolo Stoppio (d...townhouse of the Augsburg banker Hans Fugger with Italianate grotesques, stucco...frescoes. By 1573, Wilhelm, who looked to Fugger for advice on artistic matters, as well...
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L'Oeuvre Au Noir: Histoire D'Une Vie, Itinéraire D'Une Quête
Journal article by Nadia Harris; Symposium, Vol. 43, 1989
Subjects: Philology, Modern
...sur le point de quitter la maison des Fugger pose a Martha au sujet de ses parents...lidentite du medecin dans lepisode des Fugger de Cologne illustre de facon eloquente...pas, lors de sa courte visite chez les Fugger devine en Martha une lachete dont elle...
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A Human Dendritic Cell-Based Method to Identify CD[4.Sup.+
Journal article by Marcia Stickler, Jeanette Mucha, Scott Power, Fiona Harding; Vol. 111, 2003
...peptides that are not T-cell epitopes (Adorini et al. 1988; Fugger et al. 1996; Lo-Man et al. 1998; Ma et al. 1999; Velazquez...MHC class II interaction. Semin Immunol 11:405-416. Fugger L, Liang J, Gautam A, Rothbard JB, McDevitt HO. 1996...
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Comments on Some Obscure or Ambiguous Points of the Treatise de Computis et Scripturis by Luca Pacioli
Journal article by Esteban Hernandez-Esteve; The Accounting Historians Journal, Vol. 21, 1994
Subjects: Accounting procedures, Balance sheets, Bookkeeping, Books, Problems, Studies
...of America (1934). Ehrenberg, Richard, Das Zeitalter der Fugger, Jena (1922). Felloni, Giuseppe, "I primi banchi pubblici...delivery of a guarantee. Based on Ehrenberg (Das Zeilter der Fugger, Jena, 1922, II, p. 124), to him the word ditta means...
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Letters
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 50, October 2000
...it is undeniable, moreover, that the Fugger in many countries were hated by the people...This is presumably in reference to Jacob Fugger the Rich (died 1526), who gained his...Maximilian I and Charles V as `that Rich Fugger. Ray Broadbent Stretford, Manchester...
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The Birth of Power Dressing: At What Point Did It Begin to Matter What You Wore? Ulinka Rublack Looks at Why the Renaissance Was a Turning Point in People's Attitudes to Clothes and Their Appearance
Magazine article by Ulinka Rublack; History Today, Vol. 61, January 2011
Subjects: English Renaissance, 1485-1649, Fashion--Analysis
...Schwarz, a 29-year-old chief accountant for the mighty Fugger family of merchants from Augsburg, commissioned a naked image...exciting and not very young daughter of a local manager in the Fugger firm. In the picture of himself marking the occasion Schwarz...
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Turning out the Pockets for Narcolepsy and Diabetes
Magazine article by A. Nicola Schweitzer; The Scientist, Vol. 18, March 15, 2004
...development of type I diabetes. Clinical immunologist Lars Fugger and structural biologist Yvonne Jones, both at Oxford University...differential influences on T-cell stimulation. In particular, says Fugger, the extra large P4 pocket selectively accommodates a candidate...
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German Centers of Mission Research
Magazine article by Willi Henkel; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 21, July 1997
Subjects: Germany, History, Missionaries, Research
...Germany have their own archives, and many of them have not been researched systematically. Mention should also be made of the Fugger Archives, which contain a considerable number of letters written by missionaries to their benefactors. The Situation After...
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Walpole's Pictures Revisit England
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 281, December 2002
Subjects: Painting, European--Exhibitions, Prime ministers--Collections and collecting, Walpole, Robert--Collections and collecting
...eerie drama, akin to that in his own novel The Castle of Otranto; or because of his respect for Bordones early patrons, the Fugger bankers, like Sir Robert acute financiers, who had a network of spies as extensive as his own in Europe. Per haps he relished...
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Basketball Previews
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 17, 2006
...jr.; Pete Cappetta, sr.; F Tim Fugger, sr.; G-F Dex Jones, jr.; F Jack...starting swingman Jones. Explosive 6-4 Fugger will hopefully join them after a football...play big. Scudder goes 6-5, Grant and Fugger 6-4. Aggressiveness could be better...
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Football Previews
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), August 25, 2006
Subjects: Football teams
...receiver Steve Weidacher, and senior Tim Fugger caught just 4 passes due to injury. Yet...strong and that good," Andriano said of Fugger. Heck, Montini returns two kickers...2004 team, that team was hungry." Tim Fugger won the 2006 Suburban Catholic 100-meter...
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Heart of Medieval Germany; Fall in Love with Charming Romantic Road
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 15, 2005
...the Fuggers and the Welsers. Anton Fugger was the worlds richest man in his day. His predecessor, Jakob Fugger the Rich, was a financial genius of...social housing, started by the bankers Fugger. To apply for housing, one had to be...
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Marian Central Gets Last Word against Montini in SCC
Newspaper article by Michael Eaken; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 30, 2006
...after the first quarter. But senior Pete Cappetta found Tim Fugger for a 22-yard score to tie the game at 7 with 1:13 remaining...yard line at the end of the third quarter, and Cappetta found Fugger for a 2- yard score with 8:38 remaining to give the Broncos...
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Brown Praises Heroes of the Fall of the Wall; Tribute to Unbreakable Spirit of Those Who Dared to Dream in the Darkness
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), November 9, 2009
...kissed and toasted each other with champagne. Klaus-Hubert Fugger, a student at the Free University in West Berlin, was having...Customers bought the visitors round after round. By midnight, Mr Fugger and three others went to the Brandenburg Gate and scaled the...
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Fugger
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FUGGER foog r, German family of merchant princes...foundation of their wealth was laid by Hans Fugger, allegedly a weaver, who moved to Augsburg...fortune by trade and banking. With Jacob Fugger II, 1459 1525, called Jacob the Rich...
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Augsburg
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...point of German science and art. The city was the home of the Fugger and Welser families and was the birthplace of Hans Holbein the...Fuggerei, an enclosed settlement for poor persons founded by the Fugger family; and the 17th-century town hall. Bertolt Brecht was...
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Germany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...commerce and banking prospered in the late 15th and early 16th cent., the heyday of such merchant princes as those of the Fugger and Welser families of Augsburg. With the help of these capitalists, Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519 58) financed his many...
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DonauwÖrth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...15th cent.), a baroque church (18th cent.), a picturesque 14th-century town hall (restored 1853), and the large Fugger house (1537 39). ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission...
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Memmingen
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...walls and gates remain. There are also two 15th-century Gothic churches, a 16th-century city hall, and the 16th-century Fugger House. ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia...
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