Tides of History

Jakob Fugger: The Richest Man Who Ever Lived?

05.16.2019 - By Wondery / Patrick WymanPlay

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At the end of the fifteenth century, the center of European banking suddenly swung from its birthplace in Italy to south Germany. The key figure in that transition was Jakob Fugger of Augsburg, maybe the richest man who ever lived.

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