Like his early mentors Joachim Camerarius and Victorinus Strigel, Monau initially identified with the Philippist Lutheran faction although, like many Philippists, in time he moved toward a Reformed Protestant theological position.
In 1590 he was Councilor of Duke Frederick of Legnica and Brzeg, while he continued to reside in Breslau.
He was a friend of Johannes Crato von Krafftheim and a member of Breslau intellectual circles.
By his second marriage, he was related to the families Vogt, Pucher, Holzbecher und Heugel.
Together with his friend Wacker von Wackenfels he convinced Abraham Ortelius to create a map of Utopia.