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Goldenballs: Not for Nothing Was Jacob Fugger Known as “Jacob the Rich”
- caminante 11y agopaywall edit: workaround = load the URL in incognito-mode.
- mirimir 11y agoI don't see one.
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- comrade1 11y agoThere's a richest person that dies every time after the last richest person died. The idea that he was the richest person in history sounds very euro-centric.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThere are lists of same: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_... Direct comparisons are, of course, difficult.
- sasvari 11y agoThe influence and importance of the Fuggers can still be seen in Augsburg and the surrounding area today: - endless houses and castles [0] - the Fugger foundations [1]: existing continuously since the 16th century - the Fuggerei, the oldest social housing complex of the world [2], financed by the Fugger foundations: qualifying (catholic) people in need live there for less than a euro a year [0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_von_der_Lilie#Baudenkm.C3.A4ler_der_Fugger https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_von_der_Lilie#Baudenkm.... [1] http://www.fugger.de/en/singleview/article/quick-guide-5/33.html http://www.fugger.de/en/singleview/article/quick-guide-5/33.... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuggerei
- ableal 11y ago'Fugger teamed up with another Habsburg client, for whom he had bought the archbishopric of Mainz, and the pair began to sell indulgences (a forgiveness of sins, which provided, for a fee, a short cut to heaven), splitting the proceeds with Pope Leo, who used the cash to build St Peter’s Basilica. In 1517 Martin Luther was sufficiently outraged by this scheme that he wrote the “95 Theses” that damned Rome, sparking the Protestant Reformation.'