Fugger

[ foog-uhr ]

noun

1. Ja·kob II [yah, -kawp], the Rich, 1459–1525, German financier, a member of a German family of bankers and merchants of the 14th to 17th centuries.

Fugger

/ ˈfʊɡər /

noun

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

Example Sentences

He did not see how to escape conviction of failure, and so he sought to terrify Fugger by an exhibition of his Satanic wrath.

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In this delay, George Fugger saw the solution which great wealth and determination of character placed within his reach.

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Madame de Raysbeck, and Countess Fugger, wife of his chief equerry, were his declared favorites.

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Jacob Fugger, a younger son of Ulrich, raised the family to the zenith of its opulence and magnificence.

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Paracelsus mentions having visited the Fugger mines at Schwatz in the Tyrol in connection with his alchemistic studies.

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