Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 in
Comines – 29 October 1592 in
Saint-Germain-sous-Cailly; ), 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.
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