# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jakob-fugger
# Generated: 2026-09-07T22:03:48.663Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jakob-fugger"
name: "Jakob Fugger"
slug: "jakob-fugger"
description: "Jakob Fugger of the Lily, also known as Jakob Fugger the Rich or Jakob II, was a major German merchant, mining entrepreneur, and banker. He was a descendant of the Fugger merchant family located in the Free Imperial City of Augsburg. He was born and later also elevated through marriage to Grand Burgher of Augsburg. Within a few decades, he expanded the family firm to a business operating in all of Europe. He began his education at the age of 14 in Venice, which also remained his main residence until 1487. At the same time, he was a cleric and held several prebends. American journalist Greg Steinmetz has estimated his overall wealth to be around 2% of the GDP of Europe at that time, the equivalent of around $400 billion adjusted to 2015."
tagline: "German merchant (1459-1526)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_080.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
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  slug: "founders"
profileType:
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  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1459-03-06"
deathDate: "1525-12-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           55.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.79044133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Јакоб Фугер"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump