On the Straight Dope website, someone has taken grammatical issue. He says,

Cecil writes "Attending a dance at a professor's house, he got into a quarrel with one Manderup Parsbjerg, like himself a member of the Danish gentry." Seems to me that's a rather abrupt shift in antecedent. "He" and and "himself" I assume refer to Tycho, while "a member of the Danish gentry" to Manderup Parsbjerg. But it took a while for me to digest that sentence. It's not too important, but I thought I'd point it out as something to watch out for.

Others, including myself, had no trouble understanding the criticized sentence. I claim no special command of grammar, and so I ask: what, if anything, is wrong with the criticized sentence? Or is the sentence fine and the critic the problem?