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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.


Fugger British  
/ ˈfʊɡər /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From BBC Jan. 10, 2024

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 Dec. 25, 2021

Jacob Fugger, a German banker in the 15th century, “could have been a Russian oligarch, a Latin American telecoms boss or an American railroad baron from the 19th century,” Mr. Steinmetz says.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2015

And in contrast to so many wealthy people who insist it’s not about the money, for Fugger it very much was.

From Washington Post Aug. 6, 2015

The host is the same Marcus Fugger who wrote the best work on the training of horses in the sixteenth century.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I. by Gustav Freytag

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