Fugger

American  

[foog-uhr] / ˈfʊg ər /

noun

1. Jakob II the Rich, 1459–1525, German financier, a member of a German family of bankers and merchants of the 14th to 17th centuries.

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Fugger British  

/ ˈfʊɡər /

noun

1. a German family of merchants and bankers, prominent in 15th- and 16th-century Europe

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Example Sentences

Professor Lars Fugger, a co-author of the MS study professor and consultant physician at John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, said: "This means we can now understand and seek to treat MS for what it actually is: the result of a genetic adaptation to certain environmental conditions that occurred back in our prehistory."

From Science Daily

Prof Lars Fugger, paper author and MS doctor at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, says the discovery helps "demystify" the disease.

From BBC

When treating it, we are up against evolutionary forces, Prof Fugger says.

From BBC

Dürer’s preferred medium was a special paper made by his patron, Jacob Fugger, one of the richest men who ever lived.

From Seattle Times

Only Dürer’s workshop had access to that paper, which bore Fugger’s signature watermark, according to Christof Metzger, a Dürer expert and chief curator at the Albertina Museum in Vienna.

From Seattle Times