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See also:BUSBECQ, OGIER GHISLAIN DE [AUGERIUS GISLENIUSI (1522-1592), Flemish writer and traveller, was See also:born at See also:Comines, and educated at the university of See also:Louvain and elsewhere. Having served the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. and his son See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip II. of See also:Spain, he entered the service of the emperor See also:Ferdinand I., who sent him as See also:ambassador to the See also:sultan See also:Suleiman I. the Magnificent. He returned to See also:Vienna in 1562 to become See also:tutor to the sons of See also:Maximilian II., afterwards emperor, subsequently taking the position of See also:master of the See also:household of See also:Elizabeth, widow of Charles IX., See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:France, and daughter of Maximilian. Busbecq was an excellent See also:scholar, a graceful writer and a See also:clever diplomatist. He collected valuable See also:manuscripts, rare coins and curious See also:inscriptions, and introduced various See also:plants into See also:Germany. He died at the See also:castle of Maillot near See also:Rouen on the 28th of See also:October 1592. Busbecq wrote Itinera Constantinopolitanum et Amasianum (See also:Antwerp, 1581), a See also:work showing consider-able insight into See also:Turkish politics. This was published in See also:Paris in 1589 as A. G. Busbequii legationis Turcicae epistolae iv., and has been translated into several See also:languages. He was a frequent visitor to France, and wrote Epistolae ad Rudolphum II. Imperatorem e Gallia scriptae (Louvain, 1630), an interesting See also:account of affairs at the See also:French See also:court. His See also:works were published
at See also:Leiden in 1633 and at See also:Basel in 1740. An See also:English See also:translation of the Itinera was published in 1744.
See C. T. See also:Forster and F. H. B. See also:Daniel, See also:Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq (See also:London, 1881); Viertel, Busbecks Erlebnisse in der Turkel (See also:Gottingen, 1902).
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