Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq published 1 non-fiction book. The best-known is The Four Epistles of A.g. Busbequius Concerning His Embassy into Turkey.
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About Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
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 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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- Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq published 1 non-fiction book that we list, as of September 2026.
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