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Apr 09, 1551 Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland Died on 12 May 1588 (aged 37)
German physician
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About 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), 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.
- He also corresponded with the Heidelberg and Basel medical professor Thomas Erastus.
- He died in Prague.
