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Also Known As Ogier Ghiselin de Busbeck
Born 1522 • Flanders
Died October 28, 1592 (aged 70) • France
Horace, bronze medal, 4th century; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
Horace
Roman poet
Cicero
Cicero
Roman statesman, scholar, and writer
Petrarch
Petrarch
Italian poet
Hugo Grotius
Hugo Grotius
Dutch statesman and scholar
Pliny the Younger
Pliny the Younger
Roman author
Poggio Bracciolini, Gian Francesco
Gian Francesco Poggio Bracciolini
Italian scholar
Titus Pomponius Atticus
Roman author
Magnus Felix Ennodius
Italian bishop and writer
Sir Harold Nicolson
British diplomat and author
Gabriel-Joseph de Lavergne, viscount of Guilleragues
French author and diplomat
Saint Paulinus of Nola
Roman Catholic saint
Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne, detail of a painting by Leclercq; in the collection of the Prince de Ligne, Beloeil, Belgium.
Charles-Joseph, prince de Ligne
Belgian military officer and author
Baldwin V
count of Flanders
Peter Paul Rubens: self-portrait
Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish artist
Jacob van Artevelde
Flemish leader
Robert I
count of Flanders
Justus Lipsius, oil painting by an unknown artist, 1585; in the Musee Plantin-Moretus, Antwerp
Justus Lipsius
Belgian scholar
Louis II
count of Flanders
Louis I
count of Flanders
Charles
count of Flanders