# Tycho Brahe **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 24, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095 "2001-04-24T03:35:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![qoncept](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/97f17d/32.png) [@qoncept](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qoncept)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095/1 "2001-04-24T03:35:28Z")
In my physics class my senior year in high school, our teacher went in to a much more elaborate description of Tycho’s death. He got himself in to a drinking contest with someone and died when his bladder burst. Any truth to this? ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095/2 "2001-04-24T04:12:09Z")
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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2001, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095/3 "2001-04-24T04:15:45Z")
Yet another theory! qoncept, take a gander at this thread: [Tycho Brahe’s untimely, but hilarious, death](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=67717) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2001, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095/4 "2001-04-30T05:18:42Z")
FWIW, I read that the story about Brahe dying as the result of not wanting to leave the table did not appear until over 50 years after his death. ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2001, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tycho-brahe/63095/5 "2001-04-30T05:20:25Z")
What I meant to say was that while it did not dispute the ruptured bladder story, it cast doubt on the _cause_ of it, and that Brahe had apparently been suffering from some urinary tract infection even before the feast.