Peter Monau (Lat. “Petrus Monavius”) (9 April 1551 – 12 May 1588) was a

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Emperor Rudolph 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 Hous ...

. He was the son of Stenzel Monau and younger brother of Jakob Monau. After several years of humanistic studies in

Wittenberg Wittenberg ( , ; Low Saxon: ''Wittenbarg''; meaning ''White Mountain''; officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg (''Luther City Wittenberg'')), is the fourth largest town in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Wittenberg is situated on the River Elbe, north o ...

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

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

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 (''

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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 German humanist and court physician to three Holy Roman emperors. Origins and education Crato von Krafftheim was born Johannes Krafft''.'' He was ...

. He carried out a correspondence with the Heidelberg Orientalist Jakob Christmann and Augsburg Rector

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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

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. 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

Munich Digitization Center Munich Digitization Center ( German ''Das Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum'' (MDZ)) is an institution dedicated to digitization, Online publication and the long-term archival preservation of the holdings of the Bavarian State Library The B ...

Melchior Adam Melchior Adam (c. 1575 – 26 December 1622) was a German Calvinist literary historian. Life Adam was born in Grottkau, Duchy of Nysa, Nysa, Habsburg Silesia (present-day Grodków, Opole Voivodeship). He visited the college in ''Brieg'' Brzeg, t ...

''Vitae Germanorum medicorum''. 1620
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