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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq has received more than 153,924 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq is the 1,641st most popular writer (down from 1,525th in 2019), the 217th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 196th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Belgian Writer.

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The life and letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
1881

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 1,641 out of 7,302. Before him are Ira Levin, Avraham Stern, Martin Gardner, Alphonse Allais, Servius Sulpicius Rufus, and Christian Morgenstern. After him are Constantijn Huygens, Andreas Gryphius, Al-Hariri of Basra, Matteo Maria Boiardo, Clodia Pulchra, and A. S. Byatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 10. Before him are Eleanor of Toledo, Ulisse Aldrovandi, Lamoral, Count of Egmont, Lodovico Ferrari, Sen no Rikyū, and Joachim du Bellay. After him are Charles II de Valois, Duke of Orléans, Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Shibata Katsuie, Catherine of Ricci, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, and Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Among people deceased in 1592, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 11. Before him are Hümaşah Sultan, Jacopo Bassano, Bartolomeo Ammannati, Thomas Cavendish, Ana de Mendoza, Princess of Eboli, and William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg. After him are William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel, William the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Michiel Coxie, Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, and Paschal Baylón.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 217 out of 1,190. Before him are Eugène Joseph Delporte (1882), Théo van Rysselberghe (1862), Begga (615), Johannes Tinctoris (1435), Henri de Baillet-Latour (1876), and Adriaen van Utrecht (1599). After him are Barthélemy d'Eyck (1420), Pierre de la Rue (1460), Lutgardis (1182), Frans Hogenberg (1535), Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1728), and Ida of Lorraine (1040).

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Among WRITERS In Belgium

Among writers born in Belgium, Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq ranks 13. Before him are Pierre Louÿs (1870), Henri Michaux (1899), Laura Marx (1845), Victor Serge (1890), Georges Rodenbach (1855), and Hugo Claus (1929). After him are Michel de Ghelderode (1898), John of Ruusbroec (1293), Jean Bolland (1596), William of Moerbeke (1215), Guido Gezelle (1830), and Hendrik Conscience (1812).

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