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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

1522 - 1592

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Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 in Comines – 29 October 1592 in Saint-Germain-sous-Cailly; Latin: Augerius Gislenius Busbequius), sometimes Augier Ghislain de Busbecq, was a 16th-century Flemish writer, herbalist and diplomat in the employ of three generations of Austrian monarchs. He served as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire in Constantinople and in 1581 published a book about his time there, Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum, re-published in 1595 under the title of Turcicae epistolae or Turkish Letters. His letters also contain the only surviving word list of Crimean Gothic, a Germanic dialect spoken at the time in some isolated regions of Crimea. He is credited with the introduction of tulips into Western Europe and to the origin of their name. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq is the 1,522nd most popular writer (up from 1,640th in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 217th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Belgian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 1,522 out of 7,302. Before him are Daniel Pennac, Rafael Alberti, Jules de Goncourt, Ichiyō Higuchi, Xavier de Maistre, and Jules Laforgue. After him are Georgi Markov, Károly Kerényi, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Erich Segal, Betty Friedan, and Alphonse Allais.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 11. Before him are Lodovico Ferrari, Eleanor of Toledo, Sen no Rikyū, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Joachim du Bellay, and Catherine of Ricci. After him are Shibata Katsuie, Gelawdewos, Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, and Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach. Among people deceased in 1592, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 10. Before him are Elisabeth of Austria, Queen of France, Jacopo Bassano, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Hümaşah Sultan, Bartolomeo Ammannati, and Thomas Cavendish. After him are Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, Paschal Baylón, William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, and John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 207 out of 1,190. Before him are Jan Ceulemans (1957), Hugo Claus (1929), Begga (615), Silvio Gesell (1862), Paul van Zeeland (1893), and Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1422). After him are Rembert Dodoens (1517), Ida of Lorraine (1040), Barthélemy d'Eyck (1420), Pierre Alechinsky (1927), Jan van Kessel the Elder (1626), and Henri Milne-Edwards (1800).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 14. Before him are Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Georges Rodenbach (1855), Victor Serge (1890), and Hugo Claus (1929). After him are J.-H. Rosny aîné (1856), Hendrik Conscience (1812), Guido Gezelle (1830), William of Moerbeke (1215), Jean Bolland (1596), and Michel de Ghelderode (1898).

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