Jacob Fugger: The Rich Merchant and Banker of Augsburg, 1459-1525
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“The biography of Fugger by Professor Strieder is a fine example of the work done by economic historians in the field that is becoming specialized as business history.”—N. S. B. Gras
Jacob Strieder
JACOB STRIEDER (1877-1936) was a German economic historian. He studied history and political science in Wroclaw, Berlin, Greifswald, Leipzig and Bonn. He received his doctorate in 1903 from the University of Bonn, where he was appointed as a private lecturer and then Professor in 1917. In 1920 he was appointed to the newly established position of chair for economic history at the University of Munich and appointed full professor there in 1923. Strieder worked primarily on capitalism and commercial history. From 1920-1935, he headed the “Fürstliche und Gräfliche Fuggersche Familien- und Stiftungsarchiv” in Augsburg. Strieder was Chairman of the Association for Christian Art, a member of the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and corresponding member of the Hungarian Historical Society. He headed the section for social and economic science at the Görres Society until his death and was the editor of the publications of this section. MILDRED L. HARTSOUGH was an American translator and author of several books, including studies on the development and transportation of the twin cities Minneapolis and St. Paul in Minnesota. N. S. B. GRAS (1884–1956) was a Canadian professor at the Harvard Business School who invented the academic discipline of Business History. Born in Toronto, Ontario, he graduated from the University of Western Ontario and received his PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Gras taught Economics at the University of Minnesota. He was appointed as Professor of Business History at Harvard in 1927 and served as the president of the Business History Foundation. He was the founder and editor of the Journal of Economic and Business History and also the editor of the Harvard Studies of Business History.
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