(Auger Giften, lord of), a person il- lustrious on account of his embassies, was born at Com- mines, in the year 1522; and educated at the most famous universities, at Louvain, at Paris, at Venice, at Bologna, and at Padua. He was engaged in seve- ral important employments and negotiations, and par- ticularly was twice sent ambassador by the king of the Romans to the emperor Soliman. He collected ins- criptions; bought manuscripts; searched after rare plants; enquired into the nature of animals; and, in his second journey to Constantinople, carried with him a painter, that he might be able to communicate to the curious, the figures, at least, of the plants and animals that were not well known in the west. He wrote a Discourse of the state of the Ottoman empire, and a Relation of his two journeys to Turkey, which are much esteemed. He died in 1592.