Long before Warren Buffett, Bill Gates or John D. Rockefeller, there was Jakob Fugger. Born in Augsburg, Germany in 1459 to a well-heeled merchant family, Fugger emerged as one of history's most ...

In the late 15th century, the financial empire of the Fugger Brothers blanketed ... around the fortress city of Augsburg, where the family fortune began. Brother Jakob was the genius of the ...

was better known simply as Jakob Fugger the Rich. His family were textile merchants in the German city of Augsburg, but Fugger succeeded in expanding the business across almost all of Europe.

I'll leave the last word to Jakob Fugger, however. He was the one who controlled the sale of indulgences. If you visit his tomb in Augsburg today, you can see these words prominently displayed ...

Greg Steinmetz aims to rectify that. Jacob Fugger, a Renaissance-era banker and industrialist from the German city of Augsburg, was “the most influential businessman of all time,” Steinmetz ...