Brahe_Tycho3

Family Life 

Tycho and Kirstine Barbara had eight children.

 Kirstine- Born on the 12 of Ocotber of 1573

Magdaline- Was born in 1574, died in 1620

Claus or Claudius- Was born on the second January of 1577 and died on the 8th of January just six days old.

Sophie- Was born on the 4th of August 1578.

Elisabeth- Was born probably in 1579 and died in 1613 at Regensburg.

Rudolph Tycho- There is no documentation of when he was born or died.

Anna Florentina- Who was born in 1635 and died unmarried in 1672.

Alzbeta- Was born in 1639.

Sidsel- Was born probably in 1580 she died in Krakow in 1640.

Tyge- Was born on the 28th of August in 1581 and died on the 2nd of September 1627.

George- Was born in 1583, in 1640. He was attacked and killed at the Krivoklat Fort in Bohemia.

His foster father, uncle Jorgen Brahe, had already died in 1565 of pneumonia after rescuing Frederick ll of Denmark from drowning.

His original father died in May 1571. He wanted Tycho to take up law but allowed him to take trips to Rostock, then onto Augsburg, where he built a great quadrant.