AUGER GISLEN, LORD OF, a person illustrious on account of his embassies, was born at Comines 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 several important employments and negotiations, and particularly was twice sent ambassador by the king of the Romans to the emperor Soliman. He collected inscriptions; bought manuscripts; searched after rare plants; inquired 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.