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Anton Fugger (10 June 1493 – 14 September 1560) was a German merchant and member of the Fugger family. He was a nephew of Jakob Fugger.
Os Fugger foram uma importante família germânica de banqueiros e mercadores, durante o período do Sacro Império Romano-Germânico, entre o final da Idade Média e o início da Idade Moderna, incluindo o Renascimento.
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Founding
The founder of the family was Hans Fugger, a weaver at Graben, near the Swabian Free City of Augsburg. The last name was originally spelled "Fucker" – the first recorded reference to the family comes when Johann's son, also named Johann (or Hans), moved to Augsburg in 1367, with the local tax register laconically noting Fucker advenit, "Fugger has arrived".He married Klara Widolf and became an Augsburg citizen. After Klara's death, he married Elizabeth Gattermann. He joined the weaver's guild...
Jakob Fugger "the Rich"
Ulrich's youngest brother Jakob Fugger, born in 1459, was to become the most famous member of the dynasty. In 1498, he married Sibylla Artzt, Grand Burgheress to Augsburg, the daughter of an eminent Grand Burgher of Augsburg (German: Großbürger zu Augsburg). They had no children, but this marriage gave Jakob the opportunity to elevate to Grand Burgher of Augsburg and later allowed him to pursue a seat on the city council (Stadtrat) of Augsburg. He was elevated to the nobility of the Holy Roma...
Later years
Jakob's successor was his nephew Anton Fugger, son of his elder brother Georg. Anton was born in 1493, married Anna Rehlinger, and died in 1560. In 1525, the Fuggers were granted the revenues from the Spanish orders of knighthood together with the profits from mercury and silver mines. The formerly rich yield of the Tirolean and Hungarian mines decreased, but Anton established new trade ties with Peru and Chile and started mining ventures in Sweden and Norway. He was involved in the slave tra...
Kirchberg and Weißenhorn with Wullenstetten and Pfaffenhofen (Roth)(1507)Kluger, Martin (2014). The Fugger Dynasty in Augsburg – Merchants, Mining Entrepreneurs, Bankers and Benefactors. Augsburg: context verlag. ISBN 978-3-939645-74-0.Steinmetz, Greg (2015). The Richest Man Who Ever Lived. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-8855-9.Anton Fugger establishes the Holz- und Blatternhaus Foundation (wood and smallpox house) and reorganises the existing foundations. With a legal decree, Anton limits succession to male descendants in order to secure wealth and properties in the long term.
Anton Fugger von der Lilie war ein deutscher Kaufmann, Reichsgraf und Bankier. Zum Gedenken an den einflussreichen Kaufmann gab die Stadt Augsburg der 1997 fertiggestellten Lechbrücke den Namen Anton-Fugger-Brücke.
After his death in 1525, Jakob Fugger's nephew and successor Anton moved more of the firm's business to Spain and invested in the purchase of lands and manorial estates. In the following decades, Anton's forward-looking business practices ensured the firm's economic viability.
Fugger family, German mercantile and banking dynasty that dominated European business during the 15th and 16th centuries, developed capitalistic economic concepts, and influenced continental politics. Hans Fugger, a weaver born in the village of Graben in Swabia, established the family in Augsburg.
