Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (1522 in
Comines – 28 October 1592;
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".