{{short description|German physician}} '''Peter Monau''' ({{langx|la|Petrus Monavius}}; 9 April 1551 – 12 May 1588) was a court physician of Emperor Rudolf II.
==Biography== 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),<ref>[http://www.advances.am.wroc.pl/strona.php?id=11&n=773&lang=plSummary|Barbara Bruziewicz-Mikłaszewska:''Peter Monavius (1551–1588) - physician from Wroclaw and his doctor's degree thesis (1578) "De dentium affectibus" - the oldest work Stomatology about topics in Europe''. In:''Advances in Clinical and Experimental Medicine''. Volume 12, Issue 6, 2003]</ref> 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.<ref>Heid. Hs. 905: [http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/heidhs905/0039?sid=49944e29a76973ed2eb60e3448ce3de5 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. He died in Prague.
== Publications == * ''Consiliorum et epistolarum medicinalium liber''; Frankfurt, 1591, with Johannes Crato von Krafftheim * [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/bsb00032354/image_1 ''De dentium affectibus theses inaugurales'']. Basel, 1578 (VD 16 M 6140).
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== External links == * {{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|22|163|163|Monau, Jakob|Adolf Schimmelpfennig|ADB:Monau, Jakob}} * [http://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/index.html?c=autoren_index&l=de&ab=Monau,%20Peter Digitized Works of Peter Monau] at the Munich Digitization Center * Melchior Adam: [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/adam/adam2/s339.html ''Vitae Germanorum medicorum''. 1620]
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