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...Derived by Swiss Mathematician Jakob Bernoulli (1654-1705), from the equation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Art of Structure | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

Alfred R. Bader, owner of the art work, first saw it in Vienna last November, but did not decide to buy it until last Monday. Jakob Rosenber, professor of Fine Arts at Fogg, then assured him that it was indeed the original and was in good condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rembrandt Painting Certified as Genuine By Fogg Expert | 4/9/1959 | See Source »

...private banker to Maximilian I, and Charles V was so heavily in his debt that Jakob once wrote him a saucy note: "May I remind Your Majesty that without my financial assistance you would not be sitting on your throne." As lenders to hard-pressed popes, Jakob and his brother managed papal finances in all of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Scandinavia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rent Bargain | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

Before he died in 1525, Jakob erected a monument to his family in their native Augsburg. With an impressive endowment fund of 76,000 Rhenish guilders, he built a little walled city within the city: six streets containing, in all, 53 double-story houses in neat rows. It was the world's first privately subsidized housing project. Its tenants were limited to poor Roman Catholics who "must lead a decent, Christian life" and who agreed to say a prayer once a day for the Fuggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rent Bargain | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

This Easter week, in a custom 438 years old, elderly men and women will trudge up the creaky staircase to the auditor's office to pay their annual rent. It is one of the world's real housing bargains. The annual rent is still what Jakob Fugger decreed it to be 400 years ago: the equivalent of one Rhenish guilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Rent Bargain | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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