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Fug⋅ger

[foog-uhr]
–noun
Ja⋅kob II [yah-kawp] , (“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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Fug·ger   (fŏŏg'ər)   
Family of German financiers who exerted great economic and political influence in the 15th and 16th centuries. Founded by Johannes (1348-1409), the family business was greatly expanded by his son Jakob (died 1469).
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