Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Flemish diplomat

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq

Flemish scholar and diplomat (1522–1592)

Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 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…