János_Thurzó

János Thurzó

János Thurzó

Hungarian entrepreneur and mining engineer

János Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János, German: Johann T(h)urzo, Polish: Jan Turzo, Slovak: Ján T(h)urzo; 30 April 1437 in Levoča (Lewscen in 15th century) – 10 October 1508 in Nagybánya) was a Hungarian entrepreneur and mining engineer. From 1477 until his death he was an Alderman (a member of the city council) of Kraków, Poland, and even became its mayor for a while.

By establishing "The Common Hungarian Trade" (German: Gemeine Ungarische Handel, also known as Fugger–Thurzo company), he developed a very profitable business relationship with Jakob Fugger,[1] which held a de facto monopoly over copper mining and trade in the Holy Roman Empire around 1500.

Thurzo first married Ursula Boehm and the couple had three sons: György Thurzó who married Anna Fugger, later György Thurzó became the mayor of Kraków; another son of János, became the archbishop of Breslau (today Wroclaw); and their third son became the bishop of Olomouc.

His second marriage was with Barbara Beck: their daughter Katharina married Johann Jakob Fugger.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Hirakawa, Kayo (2009). The Pictorialization of Dürer's Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Peter Lang. p. 48. ISBN 978-3-03911-725-3.

Further reading

  • Lynch, Martin (2004). "The Metallurgical Renaissance". Mining in World History. Reaktion Books. pp. 19–62. ISBN 1-86189-173-3.


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