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Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor
Rudolf II was a Habsburg ruler, King of Hungary from 1572, King of Bohemia from 1575 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1576 to 1612. He moved his court to Prague, where he patronised artists and scholars such as Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. Withdrawn and unstable in later years, he was forced to yield Hungary, Austria and finally Bohemia to his brother Matthias.
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