Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg Manderup Parsberg (December 24, 1546 - November 11, 1625) was a Danish nobleman and politician who was member of the Royal Privy Council to King Christian IV of Denmark. As a student at the University of Rostock he participated in a duel against his third cousin Tycho Brahe in which he cut off most of his nose. The two later became good friends, and he married Tycho's distant cousin Anne Pedersdatter Brahe (1578-1633). Parsberg was lord to Hagesholm. When, in a funeral oration for Brahe, an allusion was made to their unfortunate duel, Parsberg protested and sought redress
Tadeáš Hájek is unfortunately lost now. In 1564 he received the Emperor's privilege stating that no astrological prognostication could be printed in Prague before he had seen and approved it. In 1566–1570, he served as an army doctor in Austria and Hungary during the war with the Ottoman Empire. He published his studies of a supernova in the constellation Cassiopeia in 1572. Tadeáš Hájek was in frequent scientific correspondence with the recognized astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) and played an important role in persuading Rudolph II to invite Brahe (and later Kepler) to Prague. His voluminous writings in Latin were mostly concerned with