!!!Fugger, Jakob II

Fugger, Jakob (II.), "the Rich", b. Augsburg (Germany), 
March 6, 1459, d. Augsburg Dec. 30, 1525, merchant. 
Uncle of Anton  Fugger; from 1485 headed the Fugger trading company in 
Innsbruck, which dominated mining operations and the trade of copper 
and silver in Tirol. He was Emperor  Maximilian I´s 
financial backer and in 1519 financed the election of Emperor  
Karl V.

!Literature
E. E. Unger, Die F. in Hall im Tirol, 1967.


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