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Peter Monau (; 9 April 1551 – 12 May 1588) was a court physician of Emperor
Rudolf II Rudolf II (18 July 1552 – 20 January 1612) was Holy Roman Emperor (1576–1612), King of Hungary and Croatia (as Rudolf I, 1572–1608), King of Bohemia (1575–1608/1611) and Archduke of Austria (1576–1608). He was a member of the H ...
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Biography

He was the son of Stenzel Monau and younger brother of Jakob Monau. After several years of humanistic studies in
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and
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, he devoted himself from 1575 to 1578 to medical studies in
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. Having earned his doctorate in
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with
Felix Platter Felix Platter (also Plater ; ; Latinized: Platerus; 28 October 1536 – 28 July 1614) was a Swiss physician, botanist, and diarist. He is known for his research in several areas of medicine, including ophthalmology and psychiatry. Biography Fel ...
with the work ''De dentium affectibus'' (the first doctoral theses in
stomatology An oral medicine or stomatology doctor/dentist (or stomatologist) has received additional specialized training and experience in the diagnosis and management of oral mucosal abnormalities (growths, ulcers, infection, allergies, immune-mediated an ...
), he settled in Breslau as physician. In 1580, he was named imperial physician (''
Archiater An archiater () was a chief physician of a monarch, who typically retained several. At the Roman imperial court, their chief held the high rank and specific title of ''Comes archiatrorum''. The term has also been used of chief physicians in commun ...
Caesareus'') by Rudolf II on the recommendation of
Johannes Crato von Krafftheim Johannes Crato von Krafftheim (born Johannes Krafft; 22 November 1519 – 19 October 1585) was a humanist and court physician to three Holy Roman emperors. Origins and education Crato von Krafftheim was born Johannes Krafft. He was the son o ...
. He carried out a correspondence with the Heidelberg Orientalist
Jakob Christmann Jakob Christmann (November 1554 – 16 June 1613) was a German Orientalist who also studied problems of astronomy. Life Christmann was born in November 1554 in Johannisberg. Christmann, a Jew who converted before 1578 to Christianity, stud ...
and Augsburg Rector
David Hoeschel David Hoeschel (also Höschel) () (8 April 1556, Augsburg – 19 October 1617, Augsburg) was a German librarian, editor and scholar. He was a pupil of Hieronymus Wolf. While he was rector of the St. Anna Gymnasium in Augsburg, he founded in 1594 w ...
to 1584.Heid. Hs. 905
Letters in transcriptions by Ernst Volger (1882/86) mostly to David Hoeschel
/ref> He also corresponded with the Heidelberg and Basel medical professor
Thomas Erastus Thomas Erastus (original surname Lüber, Lieber, or Liebler; 7 September 152431 December 1583) was a Swiss physician and Calvinist theologian. He wrote 100 theses (later reduced to 75) in which he argued that the sins committed by Christians shou ...
. He died in
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Publications

* ''Consiliorum et epistolarum medicinalium liber''; Frankfurt, 1591, with Johannes Crato von Krafftheim
''De dentium affectibus theses inaugurales''
Basel, 1578 (
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M 6140).


References


External links

*
Digitized Works of Peter Monau
at the
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* Melchior Adam
''Vitae Germanorum medicorum''. 1620
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