Lazarus Nuremberg

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Lazarus Nürnberger ( Noremberger ) (* 1499 in Neustadt an der Aisch ; † 1564 ) was a German merchant in Seville .

Life

Lazarus Nürnberger was born as the son of a margravial Ansbacher Kastner . Around 1514 he did a commercial apprenticeship with the Nuremberg company Hirschvogel . At the beginning of 1517 he traveled to Lisbon via the Netherlands . Between April 2nd and October 1st, 1517, he continued his journey with the António de Saldanha's fleet on board the S. Agno grandi via Mozambique to Goa , probably for the company . There he visited the Kingdom of Patigalan , which was known as a production center for textiles, precious stones and pearls that came from Baticala in Hormuz . The Kingdom of Cannanore was his next destination. At that time, this supplied ginger, cotton and tube cassia in addition to pepper . Subsequently, Nürnberger continued his journey to Calicut and Cochin , the king's residence. On January 12, 1518, he traveled to Lisbon. There is no record of the things he brought back from his trip. At the end of July 1518 he wrote to Michael Behaim (1489–1522) in Nuremberg.

During his absence, Joachim Pruner, a Hirschvogel agent who had bought a large number of precious stones, represented him in Lisbon. Georg Pock (* 1495) from Würzburg assisted him .

In 1518 Nürnberger traveled to Andalusia . In 1519, after the fasting mass in Frankfurt , he went back to his home in Central Franconia . Here he was valued for his knowledge of East Indian conditions. He served as an interpreter for Martin Behaim, who spoke only Portuguese and was probably a nephew of the cosmographer of the same name . In the winter of 1519/20 Nürnberger traveled again to Lisbon. Due to the poor business situation there, he was deployed by Hirschvogel in Seville. He settled there and became a central figure in business life.

On July 22, 1525, Nürnberger and Cromberger were the first Germans to receive permission from Emperor Charles V to carry out transatlantic trade in Seville or America. For overseas business, he owned at least the ships Santiago and La Librera .

From 1525 Nürnberger participated in the trade in pearls, which he probably obtained from the Venezuelan island of Cubagua , and u. a. sold to the king.

Nürnberger married Catalina (* around 1473 - 1528), the daughter of Jakob Cromberger . In 1525, Nürnberger bought the neighboring house of his father-in-law in San Isidro from Pedro Afán (de Ribera?).

In June 1526 Nürnberger received from Emperor Charles V, who was staying in Seville on the occasion of his wedding, the permission to send a “ German Nation Factor ” to America. At the end of 1526 Barthel Blümlein ( Flores ) traveled to Santo Domingo , where he did business with Juan Francisco (originally bookseller, partner, second factor after Diego de Mendieta) for Nuremberg. From there he obtained sugar and gold.

In 1526 he granted the Venetian Sebastian Caboto a loan to equip an expedition. His nephew Kasimir Nürnberger from Ulm was recruited as a mercenary leader in Seville.

When Nurnberg's father-in-law died in 1528, he and his wife Catalina made a substantial inheritance.

In 1535, the Nürnberger-Cromberger-Handelsgesellschaft took part in a Mexican company to which Hans Henschel was sent from Basel .

In the same year they opened a merchandise trade with Peru in Nombre de Dios (Panama) with Christoph Raiser, a factor in the Augsburg businessman Sebastian Neidhart . From there they brought an emerald with them, which they sold to the Empress Isabella for 600 ducats and slave trade licenses .

While Nürnberger traded in slaves of various skin colors and with slave trade licenses in 1536, textiles, tin and mercury were his trade products in 1537 and 1538 .

In 1541 he signed a contract with Caboto to produce a world map.

In 1546 Nürnberger teamed up with Hans Tetzel from Nuremberg to exploit copper deposits in Cuba . His brother Jobst Tetzel was the leading jeweler in Nuremberg.

Nürnberger left five children: Heinrich took over the inheritance in Neustadt. One daughter married Thomas Miller, factor of the Fugger . Nikolaus entered the service of the Fuggers. Thomas died in Nombre de Dios in 1574.

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SURNAME Nuremberg, Lazarus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noremberger, Lazarus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German businessman
DATE OF BIRTH 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Neustadt an der Aisch
DATE OF DEATH 1564