Peter Monau

Peter Monau (lat. “Petrus Monavius”) (9 April 1551 – 12 May 1588) was an imperial court physician of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II.

He was the son of Stenzel Monau and younger brother of Jakob Monau. After several years of humanistic studies in Wittenberg and Heidelberg, he devoted himself from 1575 to 1578 to medical studies in Padua. Having earned his doctorate in Basel with Felix Platter with the work De dentium affectibus (the first doctoral theses in stomatology),[1] he settled in Breslau as physician. In 1580, he was named imperial physician (Archiater Caesareus) by Rudolf II on the recommendation of Johannes Crato von Krafftheim.

He carried out a correspondence with the Heidelberg Orientalist Jakob Christmann and Augsburg Rector David Hoeschel to 1584.[2] He also corresponded with the Heidelberg and Basel medical professor Thomas Erastus. He died in Prague.

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References
  1. Bruziewicz-Mikłaszewska:Peter Monavius (1551–1588) - physician from Wroclaw and his doctor's degree thesis (1578) "De dentium affectibus" - the oldest work Stomatology about topics in Europe. In:Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine. Volume 12, Issue 6, 2003
  2. Heid. Hs. 905: Letters in transcriptions by Ernst Volger (1882/86) mostly to David Hoeschel
  • Adolf Schimmelpfennig (1885), "Monau, Jakob", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB) (in German), 22, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, p. 163
  • Digitized Works of Peter Monau at the Munich Digitization Center
  • Melchior Adam: Vitae Germanorum medicorum. 1620
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