János Thurzó

János Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János, German: Johann T(h)urzo, Polish: Jan Turzo, Slovak: Ján T(h)urzo; April 30, 1437 in Lőcse – October 10, 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 became even 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 Barbara Beck: their daughter Katharina married Johann Jakob Fugger.

See also

References
  1. Hirakawa, Kayo (2009). The Pictorialization of Dürer's Drawings in Northern Europe in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Peter Lang. p. 48. ISBN 3-03911-725-4.

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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