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  Per Brahe (the younger) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brahe was born on the island of Rydboholm, near Stockholm.
He was the grandson of Per Brahe (the elder (1520-1590), one of Gustavus Vasa's Privy Councillors, created count of Visingsborg by Eric XIV of Sweden, known also as the continuator of Peder Svart's chronicle of Gustavus, and author of Oeconomia in 1585, a manual for young noblemen.
Per Brahe the younger, after completing his education by several years’ travel abroad, became in 1626 chamberlain to Gustavus Adolphus, whose lasting friendship he gained.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Per_Brahe_(the_younger)   (357 words)

  
 PER, COUNT BRAHE - LoveToKnow Article on PER, COUNT BRAHE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the grandson of Per Brahe (15 20I 590), one of Gustavus I.s senators, created count of Visingsborg by Eric XIV., known also as the continuator of Peder Svarts chronicle of Gustavus I., and author of Oeconomia (1585), a manual for young noblemen.
After the death of Charles X. in 1660, Brahe, as rikskansler or chancellor of Sweden, became one of the regents of Sweden for the second time (he had held a similar office during the minority of Christina, 1632-1644), and during the difficult year 1660 he had entire control of both foreign and domestic affairs.
A direct descendant of Nils, MAGNUS BRAHE (1790-1844), fought in the campaign of 181314, under the cro*n prince Bernadotte, with whom, after his accession to the throne as Charles XIV., lie was in.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRAHE_PER_COUNT.htm   (533 words)

  
 TYCHO BRAHE - LoveToKnow Article on TYCHO BRAHE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Of noble family, he was early adopted by his uncle, Jorgen Brahe, who sent him, in April 1559, to study philosophy and rhetoric at Copenhagen.
The punctual uccurrence at the predicted time, August 2 1st, 1560, of a total folar eclipse led him to regard astronomy as something divine ; he purchased the Ephemerides of Johann Stadius (3rd ed., i5~o), and the works of Ptolemy in Latin, and gained some insight into the theory of the planets.
After eleven days illness, Tycho Brahe died on the 24th of October 1601, at Benatky, and was buried in the Teynkirche, Prague.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BR/BRAHE_TYCHO.htm   (904 words)

  
 Lake Vattern : Regions in Brief | Frommers.com
Gränna was founded in 1652 by Count Per Brahe, one of the first Swedish counts to be governor of Finland.
Per Brahe encouraged the planting of pear orchards in the environs, and pears from Gränna today are ranked as the finest in Scandinavia.
Brahe was one of Gustavus Vasa's Privy Councillors.
www.frommers.com /destinations/lakevattern/3244010043.html   (1456 words)

  
 Gränna-Visingsö Turistbyrå
In the 17th century count Magnus Brahe modified the island's medieval church into an unique example of architecture from Sweden's period as a great power.
Per Brahe started the construction in 1560 and during his grandson Per Brahe's era the county experienced its period of greatness.
This was during the era when Visingsö was part of Visingsborg County and count Per Brahe junior defrayed the expense for the building.
www.grm.se /turistinfo/ENGELSKA/visingsoeng/sevartviseng.htm   (495 words)

  
 Per Brahe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Count Per Brahe the elder (1520-1590), Swedish statesman
Count Per Brahe the younger (1602-1680), Swedish soldier and statesman
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Per_Brahe   (83 words)

  
 Per Brahe biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was the grandson of Per Brahe (1520-1590), one of Gustavus Vasa's Privy Councillors, created count of Visingsborg by Eric XIV of Sweden, known also as the continuator of Peder Svart 's chronicle of Gustavus, and author of Oeconomia in 1585, a manual for young noblemen.
Per Brahe the younger, after completing his education by several years?
He died on September 2, 1680, at Brahehus, his castle at Visingsborg, where during his lifetime he had held more than regal pomp.
per-brahe.biography.ms   (306 words)

  
 Nils Brahe Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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.
The king regarded Brahe as the best general in the Swedish army after Lennart Torstenson.
www.biographybase.com /biography/Brahe_Nils.html   (170 words)

  
 Per Brahe -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Count Per Brahe (February 18, 1602 - September 2, 1680) was a (A Scandinavian language that is the official language of Sweden and one of two official languages of Finland) Swedish soldier and statesman.
Brahe was born on the island of Rydboholm, near (The capital and largest city of Sweden; located in southern Sweden on the Baltic) Stockholm.
He fought with distinction in (Click link for more info and facts about Province of Prussia) Province of Prussia during the last three years of the (Click link for more info and facts about Polish War) Polish War (1626-1629) and also, as colonel of a regiment of horse, in 1630 in Germany.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/pe/per_brahe.htm   (428 words)

  
 Brahe, Per, Greve, The Younger --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Swedish Per Brahe Den Yngre nobleman, soldier, and statesman who served as a member of the regency councils ruling Sweden during the minorities of the monarchs Christina and Charles XI.
A member of an illustrious Swedish family, Per the Younger was the grandson of Per Brahe the Elder, a nephew of the Swedish king Gustav…
The Swedish writer Per Hallström is widely considered to be his country's first master of the short-story genre.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9016147?tocId=9016147   (860 words)

  
 artnet.com: Resource Library: Werner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
From 1637 he was employed as court painter by Count Per Brahe the younger (1602–80).
As wall painters, the Werners were naively expressive, as evidenced in the rendering of the family tree in the Brahe Church.
Finally, they seem to have been much occupied as copyists of Brahe family portraits and of portraits of Swedish kings and queens, most of which are lost.
www.artnet.com /library/09/0911/T091183.asp   (484 words)

  
 Lake Vattern : Regions in Brief : Visingö Island | Frommers.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The cost is 60SEK ($6.35) per person for a 60-minute tour of the island, and 75SEK ($7.95) per person for a 90-minute tour.
This was the seat of the Brahe family whose progenitor, Per Brahe, Count of Visingsö, was a power in the Middle Ages in Sweden and Finland.
Per Brahe also built the island's parish church in the 1680s, using the walls of the Stroja medieval church as the foundations.
www.frommers.com /destinations/lakevattern/3244028551.html   (477 words)

  
 Finland. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Finnish culture and language developed during the 18th century, and Russian control proved relatively benign after the Great Wrath.
Per Brahe returned to Finland as governor-general (he first served from 1637 to 1640).
Brahe encouraged the use of the Finnish language, convincing Charles XI to learn Finnish and beginning the translation of the Bible into Finnish, and promoted the notion of a Greater Finland.
www.bartleby.com /67/766.html   (441 words)

  
 Kajaani   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The population density is 31 inhabitants per km².
Kajaani is in the center of the region of Kainuu.
Kajaani was founded in 1651, as one of the Finnish cities founded by the Governor General of Finland Per Brahe.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Kajaani.htm   (431 words)

  
 The Galileo Project
He was later governor of Helsingborg castle, and, from 1563, a member of the Rigsraad, an approximately 20 member oligarchy that ruled Denmark.
Otte Brahe died in 1571; the will was finally straightened out in 1574.
Victor E. Thoren, "Tycho Brahe as the Dean of a Renaissance Research Institute," in Margaret J. Osler, ed., Religion, Science, and Worldview (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985).
galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/brahe.html   (1121 words)

  
 The Actors Center - Voice and Movement Classes
Per Brahe is a Master Teacher and an expert on Michael Chekov.
Per Brahe is Danish, but a devotee of the great Russian actor and acting teacher Michael Chekhov.
Per's approach is described above in the Voice and Mask course description.
www.theactorscenter.org /03c.htm   (591 words)

  
 Ristiina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The town was founded in 1649 and it was named after named after Kristina Stenbock, the wife of Governor General and Count Per Brahe.
The municipality has a population of 5,111 (2003) and covers an area of 742.11 km² of which 168.47 km² is water.
The population density is 8.9 inhabitants per km².
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Ristiina.htm   (158 words)

  
 Visingso - History
The Brahe Family resided in the Visingsborg Castle near the harbour during the 16th and 17th centuries.
The Visingsborg Castle was empty for several years after the death of Count Per Brahe the Younger in 1680.
In 1636 Count Per Brahe the Younger also established a school, the Brahe School, and converted this church into three lecture rooms for the new school.
www.visingso.net /turokul/eng/history.htm   (770 words)

  
 Norwegian Coastal Voyage 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Built at the Motala Werkstad as well, she was launched in 1912 and was one of three boats named to honour three of the area's living native sons.
The other two were Victor Rydberg and Per Brahe.
She became part of the steamship company in the fusion with Ångbåts Aktiebolaget Jönköping-Stockholm in 1914, was extended and given her current profile in 1961 at the Falkenberg Shipyard.
www.coastalvoyage.com /gotacanal/ships_wilhelm.shtml   (131 words)

  
 BRAHE, PER, COUNT (1602-1680) - Online Information article about BRAHE, PER, COUNT (1602-1680)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
grandson of Per Brahe (1520-1590), one of Gustavus I.'s senators, created count of Visingsborg by See also:
Per Brahe the younger, after completing his See also:
Charles X. in 1660, Brahe, as rikskansler or chancellor of See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /BOS_BRI/BRAHE_PER_COUNT_1602_1680_.html   (723 words)

  
 The Michael Chekhov Association: MICHA, Master Teachers, Per Brahe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Per Brahe, born in Aarhus Denmark, has been a professional directer, writer, actor and teacher for over twenty-five years.
He is a Master Teacher of Michael Chekhov technique and an expert in Balinese Mask according to the Eastern tradition of mask work.
Brahe has worked at Gitis in Moscow and taught at the International Summer School in Irkusk, Siberia, and has been an invited Master Teacher at the Moscow Art Theatre.
www.michaelchekhov.org /brahe.html   (195 words)

  
 Concorde Hotels: Hotel in Norway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conference : The steamship Per Brahe, constructed in 1908, ran between Stockholm and Åbo in the 1950’s.
The banquet room Per Brahe with a beautiful salon en suite, caters for dinner parties in the style of our a la carte restaurant.
Per Brahe can seat up to 22 people....
www.concorde-hotels.com /hotel-en/id-hotels-0503660.htm   (282 words)

  
 per arsin et thesin - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about per arsin et thesin
An example from Bach's Art of Fugue in which the second voice enters by inversion, per arsin et thesin.
Musical direction indicating imitation by contrary motion; one part goes up where the other goes down.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /per+arsin+et+thesin   (100 words)

  
 Om Gränna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Together with Visingsö, Gränna was the natural centre of the Kingdom of Sweden, from Magnus Ladulås in the 13th century to Per Brahe in the 17th century.
Taking the ferry over to Visingsö (20 minutes crossing) is like travelling to another country, where one can find remains of royal strongholds, Count Per Brahe's pride, as well as horse and wagon rides that take you at a gentle pace around sites both modern and from yesteryear.
Jönköping is only half an hour away by road, with many attractions and amenities of a large town, such as concert hall, theatre, airport, railway station, aqua leisure centre, hockey arena, shopping mall, county museum, county library, and a two kilometre-long sandy beach right in the centre of town.
www.grennaskolan.se /lng_en/nav_Text/doc/4_om_grenna   (333 words)

  
 Med K-G Olin i emigranternas spår...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Let us make the whole of America Christian - and Swedish." The mind behind this magnificent vision was no less than Per Brahe, who about 350 years ago, in his capacity as Governor-General more or less saved Finland at the last minute.
Count Brahe was no doubt a great gain to Finland, but on the other side of the Atlantic his visions came to nothing.
Although Per Brahe's dream of an America entirely Christian and Swedish did not come true today we can at least say that we have a claim in the earliest American history, though this is perhaps of more importance to us than to the Americans.
www.multi.fi /~olimex/read_more/amerikafarare.htm   (1743 words)

  
 Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Playing with various local bands for several years, thinking about his future, he took his instrument and moved away from the small town to a bigger one.
By the age of 18 he had graduated from Per Brahe’s School of Music, determined to move on to an even bigger town.
A few years down the road after spending one summer in Greece as an entertainer for a Scandinavian Hotel, and working for 2 years with his recording studio, the moment came.
tomasvallin.com /bio.html   (348 words)

  
 Green Gold Culture Road   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
We will also visit the shop and exhibition of Norppa-Puukko, the workshop of a wood artisan.
We will have lunch at the Brahe Restaurant in the Ristiina parish village.
We will take a guided walk along the 2-kilometre Count Per Brahe’s Trail, providing an insight into the cultural history of Ristiina.
www.kulttuuritie.net /brahe_en.html   (419 words)

  
 Style and Character: Tisch School of the Arts at NYU
This studio concentrates on techniques for creating character, refining it for the camera, and then collaborating with a television director to perform the script in a professional television setting.
The students learn how to adjust to the demands and limitations of working in various genres where time and technical challenges often seem at odds with quality performance.
Drama Instructor Kay Matschullat leads the foundational work with acting and text analysis; James Gardner, Director of the Television Department leads the television studio work; Per Brahe teaches mask; Richard Crawford teaches LeCoq technique that fuses the body with the imagination; John Van Wyden teaches accents and dialects; and Arthur Bartow teaches comedy.
filmtv.tisch.nyu.edu /object/H28.0431Stud.html   (187 words)

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