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Martin Chemnitz

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Martin Chemnitz (9 November 1522 – 8 April 1586) was an eminent second-generation German, Evangelical Lutheran, Christian theologian, and a Protestant reformer, churchman, and confessor. In the Evangelical Lutheran tradition he is known as Alter Martinus, the "Second Martin": Si Martinus non fuisset, Martinus vix stetisset ("If Martin [Chemnitz] had not come along, Martin [Luther] would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him. He is listed and remembered in the Calendar of Saints and Commemorations in the Liturgical Church Year as a pastor and confessor by both the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Chemnitz is the 1,077th most popular philosopher (up from 1,131st in 2019), the 4,257th most popular biography from Germany (up from 4,581st in 2019) and the 135th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Martin Chemnitz ranks 1,077 out of 1,267. Before him are Ioane Petritsi, Mary Daly, Damaris Cudworth Masham, Anandavardhana, Rambhadracharya, and Mario Perniola. After him are Carole Pateman, Immanuel Hermann Fichte, Hirata Atsutane, Josiah Royce, Helene von Druskowitz, and Ivan Merz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Martin Chemnitz ranks 21. Before him are Moses ben Jacob Cordovero, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Dirck Coornhert, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Jacques Cujas. After him is Philothei of Athens.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 4,259 out of 7,253. Before him are Maxi Herber (1920), Rudolf Augstein (1923), Adrian Sutil (1983), Otto Waalkes (1948), Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804), and Franz Babinger (1891). After him are Lewis A. Coser (1913), Rosi Mittermaier (1950), Ernst Zündel (1939), Hans Apel (1932), Princess Marie Alexandrine of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1849), and Elly Ney (1882).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 135. Before him are Justus Möser (1720), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Carl Dahlhaus (1928), Heymann Steinthal (1823), Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798), and Robert Spaemann (1927). After him are Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), Max Dessoir (1867), Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778), Theodor Benfey (1809), Hermann Gunkel (1862), and Wilhelm Gesenius (1786).

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