Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
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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 ambassa
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, 1557, 12.3 × 8.8 cm by Melchior Lorck
Cover page of Turcicae epistolae, 1595 ed.
Oghier Busbeck SIL14 B9 13a
Tulip
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Tulips are spring-blooming perennial herbaceous bulbiferous geophytes in the Tulipa genus. Their flowers are usually large, showy, and brightly coloured, generally red, orange, pink, yellow, or white.
Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
…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. He was born the illegitimate son of the Seigneur de Busbecq, Georges Ghiselin, and his mistress…
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Tulipa alberti in Kazakhstan
Bulbs, showing tunic and scales
Cup-shaped flower of Tulipa orphanidea