He also held the castles Visingsborg at Visingsö and Brahehus on the mainland by Gränna , where during his lifetime he had held more than regal pomp. [ 1 ] Legacy [ edit ] The Finnish town of Raahe ( Swedish : Brahestad ), which he founded in the year of 1649 in Ostrobothnia , is named after him, [ 4 ] as is the asteroid 1680 Per Brahe , discovered by Liisi Oterma at the Turku Observatory in 1942. [ 5 ] The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 April 1980 ( M.P.C. 5280 ). [...