Jakob Monau

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Jakob Monau (born February 4, 1546 in Breslau ; † October 6, 1603 there ; also Jacobus Monavius or Iacobus Monaw ) was a polymath ( lawyer , philologist and poet ) and leader of the Reformed Church after the death of Johann Crato von Krafftheim .

Life

He was a student at the St. Elisabeth and St. Maria Magdalena Gymnasium in Breslau  . Thanks to patrons who supported him financially, he began studying at Leipzig University in the summer of 1562 . In 1569 he came to Frankfurt (Oder) , Wittenberg , Heidelberg , Tübingen and then again to Wittenberg. He was a follower of Philipp Melanchthon . In May 1573 he was enrolled at the University of Rostock , in the winter semester of 1573 he was at the University of Jena and then seems to have enrolled again in Padua . In 1574 he was in Geneva and in 1575 again in Heidelberg.

In Breslau, despite his great learning, he was not welcomed because of his Calvinist denomination. In 1590 he was an advice to Duke Friedrich von Liegnitz and Brieg , where he still had his domicile in Breslau. He was a friend of Johann Crato von Krafftheim and a member of Breslau scholar circles. Through his second marriage he was related to the Vogt, Pucher, Holzbecher and Heugel families. He had three sons, including Friedrich Monau (1592–1659), with whom the family went out.

Together with his friend Wacker von Wackenfels , he convinced Abraham Ortelius to create a map of Utopia. Ortelius dedicated his map of old Germany to him.

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  1. ↑ See the entry of Jakob Monau's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal
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SURNAME Monau, Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monavius, Jacobus; Monaw, Iacobus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German polymath (lawyer, philologist and poet)
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1546
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH October 6, 1603
Place of death Wroclaw