FUGGER FAMILY

German mercantile and banking dynasty that dominated European business during the 15th and 16th centuries, developed capitalistic economic concepts, and influenced continental politics. Additional reading A comprehensive presentation by Gtz Freiherr von Plnitz, Die Fugger, 3rd ed. (1970, reissued 1981), offers the best survey of the Fugger family and contains an extensive bibliography. The same author's biographies (in German) Jakob Fugger, 2 vol. (194151), and Anton Fugger, 3 vol. in 5 (195886), are instructive sourcebooks based on research in major European archives. Richard Ehrenberg, Capital & Finance in the Age of the Renaissance: A Study of the Fuggers and Their Connections (1928, reprinted 1985), is a pioneering study of money and credit circulation in the 16th century. Jacob Strieder, Jacob Fugger the Rich: Merchant and Banker of Augsburg, 14591525 (1931, reprinted 1984), is a biography.