Attier, Ghislen de, a distinguished ambassador and scholar, was born at Commines in 1522, and educated at the universities of Louvain, Paris, Venice, Bologna, and Padua. He was engaged in several highly important employments and negotiations, and in particular was twice sent ambassador by the king of the Romans to the court of Solyma II. He made a collection of curious inscriptions and manuscripts; and in his second journey to Constantinople he carried with him an artist to make drawings of the rarest plants and animals. In 1562 he was appointed tutor to the sons of Maximilian, then king of the Romans. Busbecq died at St Germain, near Rouen, Oct. 28, 1592. He wrote a Discourse of the State of the Ottoman Empire, and a Relation of his Two Journeys to Turkey, which were much esteemed.