Jacob Fugger, the Renaissance-era financier, is a familiar name in Germany, but little known in the English-­speaking world. “The Richest Man Who Ever Lived,” by Greg Steinmetz, a journalist turned securities analyst, is an attempt to remedy that. Though it doesn’t quite live up to its promis
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