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Jakob von Fugger (1459-1525) German merchant and philanthropist. The house of Fugger possessed extensive libraries and collections of art, maintained painters and musicians, and generally encouraged art and science. The Fuggers bought houses in a suburb of Augsburg, pulled them down, and built smaller houses, which they rented to the poor at low rates.
Ludwig Bechstein, Dreihundert Bildnisse und Lebensabrisse berühmter deutscher Männer (Leipzig: Georg Wigand's Verlag, 1890) 28.
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