Richest Man Who Ever Lived Steinmetz Greg
Richest Man Who Ever Lived Steinmetz Greg In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history.Fugger…
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Richest Man Who Ever Lived Steinmetz Greg
In the days when Columbus sailed the ocean and Da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, a German banker named Jacob Fugger became the richest man in history.Fugger lived in Germany at the turn of the sixteenth century, the grandson of a peasant. In an era when kings had unlimited power, Fugger dared to stare down heads of state and ask them to pay back their loans, with interest. By the time he died, his fortune amounted to nearly two percent of European GDP.
Before Fugger came along it was illegal under church law to charge interest on loans, but he got the Pope to change that. It was this coolness and self-assurance, along with his inexhaustible ambition, that made him not only the richest man ever, but a force of history as well. He also helped trigger the Reformation and likely funded Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe.
His creation of a news service gave him an information edge over his rivals and customers and earned Fugger a footnote in the history of journalism. And he took Austria's Habsburg family from being second-tier sovereigns to rulers of the first empire where the sun never set.The Richest Man Who Ever Lived is more than a tale about the most influential businessman of all time. It is a story about palace intrigue, knights in battle, family tragedy and triumph, and a violent clash between the one percent and everybody else.
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