Brahe Brahe Brahe is the name of two influential families, one Danish and the other one Swedish. The Swedish family descends from the Danish through a maternal line. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brahe"
Countess Ebba Brahe ( March 16, 1596- January 5, 1674) was a lady-in-waiting in the Swedish court and the mistress of the future king Gustavus Adolphus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ebba Brahe"
Count Magnus Brahe, born 25 September 1564 at Tynnelsö, steward of Sweden, died 4 March 1633 at Stockholm, buried 12 May 1633 Västerås cathedral, first marriage 10 November 1594 at Grävsnäs countess Brita Stensdotter Lewenhaupt (born 23 April 1567 at Kägleholm, died 20 May 1611, buried Västerås cathedral); second marriage 18 October 1618 at Strömsholm baroness Elena Bielke (born 28 May 1592), drowned 18 August 1651 between Norrnäs and Stockholm. ...more on Wikipedia about "Magnus Brahe (1564-1633)"
Nils Magnus Brahe ( 1790- 1844), Swedish statesman and soldier and a descendant of Per Brahe and Magnus I of Sweden, fought in the War against Napoleon ( 1813- 1814), under the crown prince Bernadotte, with whom, after his accession to the throne as Charles XIV, he was in high favour. He became Marshal of the Realm, and especially from 1828 onwards, exercised a preponderant influence in public affairs. ...more on Wikipedia about "Magnus Brahe (1790-1844)"
Nils Brahe ( 1604- 1632), Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe that served with distinction under Gustavus Adolphus. He took part in the Polish War, at siege and capture of Riga in 1621, served with distinction in Poland ( 1626- 1627) and assisted in the defence of Stralsund in 1628. In 1630 he accompanied Gustavus into Germany, in the Thirty Years' War and in 1631 was appointed colonel of "the yellow regiment," the king’s world-renowned life-guards, at the head of which he captured the castle of Würzburg on October 8, 1631. He took part in the long duel between Gustavus and Wallenstein round Nuremberg as general of infantry, and commanded the left wing at Lützen, November 6, 1632, where he was the only Swedish general officer present. At the very beginning of the fight he was mortally wounded. The king regarded Brahe as the best general in the Swedish army after Lennart Torstenson. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nils Brahe (1604-1632)"
Per Brahe the elder ( 1520- 1590) was a Swedish statesman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Per Brahe (the elder)"
Count Per Brahe ( February 18, 1602 - September 2, 1680) was a Swedish soldier and statesman. ...more on Wikipedia about "Per Brahe (the younger)"
Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe ( December 14 1546 – October 24 1601), was a Danish nobleman astronomer as well as an astrologer and alchemist. He was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. From 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler, who would later use Tycho's astronomical information to develop his own theories of astronomy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tycho Brahe"
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