Peter Monau

Peter Monau (Latin Petrus Monavius ​​) (* April 9, 1551, † May 12, 1588 in Prague) was an imperial physician to Rudolf II of Habsburg.

He was the son of Stenzel Monau († January 31, 1557 ) and younger brother of Jacob Monau. After several years of humanistic studies in Wittenberg and Heidelberg, he devoted himself from 1575 to 1578 in Padua medicine. After he ( the oldest to stomatology ) acquired in Basel with Felix Platter with the work De dentium affectibus his doctorate, he settled in Breslau as a physician.

In 1580 he was on the recommendation of Johann Crato of Krafftheim archiater Caesareus ( imperial personal physician ) of Rudolf II of Habsburg.

1584 he was with the Heidelberg orientalist Jacob Christmann and Rector David Augsburger Höschel in conjunction.

Publications

  • Consiliorum et epistolarum medicinalium liber; Frankfurt, 1591, with Johannes Crato († 1585 )
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