Sophia Brahe

Sophie Brahe (* 1556 Castle Knutstorp, careful, † 1643 in Elsinore ) was a Danish astronomer and the sister of Tycho Brahe.

Were in a time in which women de facto excluded from the seizure of a scientific profession, succeeded Sophie Brahe to independently to acquire knowledge of astronomy. Against all convention they often worked with her ​​brother. In her castle observatory Uranienborg they led jointly by celestial observations and wrote a new fixed star catalog of thousands of star locations.

The collaboration was interrupted in 1576 by ​​a forced marriage to an older man and the birth of a son in 1580. After Brahe's husband had died in 1588, she continued the joint exploration of the stars continued with her brother. In his second marriage, she was married to the Danish nobles and Alchemists Erik Lange. She died in 1643 in Helsingør.