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Tycho Brahe
Danish astronomer and alchemist, 1546–1601
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 14 December 1546, 1546
- Died
- 24 October 1601, 1601
- Place of birth
- Knutstorp Castle
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Tycho
- Family name
- Brahe
- Father
- Otte Brahe
- Mother
- Beate Clausdatter Bille
- Child
- Sidsel Brahe, Elisabeth Brahe
- Field of work
- astronomy
- Occupation
- astronomer, autobiographer, poet, astrologer, alchemist, writer, printer
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Religion
- Lutheranism
- cause of death
- kidney failure
- depicted by
- Tycho (Tyge) Brahe (astronom)
- described by source
- Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Vlastenský slovník historický, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Library of the World's Best Literature, Drobné povídky dějepisné, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Encyclopædia Britannica Ninth Edition, Astronomers: A Biographical Reference, Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary
- different from
- Tycho Brahe
- doctoral advisor
- Valentin Thau, Caspar Peucer
- doctoral student
- Adriaan Metius, Johannes Kepler, Ambrosius Rhode
- employer
- Uraniborg
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Tyge Ottesen Brahe
- notable work
- Rudolphine Tables, Tychonic system, De Nova Stella, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica, De Mundi aetherei recentioribus Phaenomenis Liber secundus, Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
- number of children
- 8, 9
- personal library at
- National Library of the Czech Republic
- place of burial
- Church of Our Lady before Týn
- student
- Simon Marius, David Gans, Paul Wittich
- topic's main category
- Category:Tycho Brahe
- work location
- Prague, Uraniborg, Benátky nad Jizerou
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