János Thurzó, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

János Thurzó

Hungarian businessman

Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1437

Place of Birth: Levoča, Prešov Region, Slovakia

Date of Death: 10-Oct-1508

Profession: engineer, trader, mining engineer

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

János Thurzó (Hungarian: Thurzó János, German: Johann T(h)urzo, Polish: Jan Turzo, Slovak: Ján T(h)urzo; April 30, 1437 in Locse – 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, 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.