4 stories mention Manderup Parsberg on DeadlyCurious.
The Mensur is a German academic-fraternity fencing tradition in which two combatants stand at fixed distance and exchange controlled blade strokes aimed at the face. The cut — the *Schmiss* — was the substantive point of the exercise. The tradition descends substantially from the 16th-century university dueling culture that cost Tycho Brahe his nose.
Read the story →Tycho Brahe wore a metal prosthetic nose for the entire adult portion of his life after losing the original to a student duel in 1566. The Renaissance prosthetics tradition that produced his nose was a substantial European craft specialism that survived from the 15th to the 19th century before being substantively replaced by 20th-century plastic surgery.
Read the story →Manderup Parsberg outlived the duel by fifty-nine years and outlived his cousin by twenty-four. He never spoke about either.
Read the story →In December 1566 the 20-year-old Tycho Brahe and his cousin fought in the dark with rapiers over a mathematical disagreement. Tycho lost the bridge of his nose.
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