"Petrus Monavius"; 9 April 1551 – 12 May 1588) was a court physician of Emperor Rudolph II.
Having earned his doctorate in Basel with Felix Platter with the work De dentium affectibus (the first doctoral theses in stomatology),[1] 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.
[2] He also corresponded with the Heidelberg and Basel medical professor Thomas Erastus.