Jakob Monau, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Polish writer and linguist
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Place of Birth: Wrocław, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
About Jakob Monau
- Jakob Monau (4 February 1546; Breslau – 6 October 1603; Breslau), also known as Jacobus Monavius or Iacobus Monaw, was a polymath (lawyer, linguist and poet) and leader of the Reformed Protestant faction after Johannes Crato von Krafftheim's death.
- He was a student at St.
- Elizabeth and Mary Magdalene Gymnasium in Breslau.
- Thanks to patrons who supported him financially, he matriculated at the University of Leipzig in the summer of 1562.
- 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.
- After 1569 he moved to Frankfurt (Oder), Wittenberg, Heidelberg, Tübingen and then again to Wittenberg.
- In winter 1573, he was to have enrolled at the University of Jena and appears to have enrolled at the University of Padua later that year.
- In 1574 he was in Geneva and in 1575 again in Heidelberg.
- Despite his great learning, he was not favored in Breslau because of his inclination toward the Reformed faith.
- 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.
- He had three sons, including Frederick Monau with whom the family line died out.
- His brother was the noted imperial physician Peter Monau. Together with his friend Wacker von Wackenfels he convinced Abraham Ortelius to create a map of Utopia.
- Ortelius dedicated his map of historic Germany to him.
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