Peter Monau

Who was Peter Monau?

Peter Monau 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, he settled in Breslau as physician. In 1580, he was named imperial physician 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.