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

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

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

Over time, this relationship with the Habsburgs became so lopsided that Fugger, born a commoner, was able to cajole the monarchs into granting extraordinary favors.

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 Freytag, Gustav