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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, Luther would hardly have survived") goes a common saying concerning him. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Chemnitz has received more than 114,061 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Martin Chemnitz is the 1,070th most popular philosopher (down from 1,001st in 2019), the 4,050th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,646th in 2019) and the 128th most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Martin Chemnitz ranks 1,070 out of 1,081Before him are Azmi Bishara, Gómez Pereira, Isidore of Alexandria, Richard Posner, Ignaty Krachkovsky, and Sandra Harding. After him are Bernard Lonergan, Seyla Benhabib, John McDowell, Amina Wadud, R. M. Hare, and Thomas van Erpe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1522, Martin Chemnitz ranks 19Before him are Shibata Katsuie, Albert Alcibiades, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Catherine of Ricci, Honoré I, Lord of Monaco, Sophia Jagiellon, Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg, and Dirck Coornhert.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 4,050 out of 6,142Before him are Saskia Esken (1961), Hans Werner Richter (1908), Renate Stecher (1950), Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1682), Ruth Leuwerik (1924), and Diederich Franz Leonhard von Schlechtendal (1794). After him are August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), Tankred Dorst (1925), Paul Rudolf von Bilguer (1815), Kito Lorenc (1938), Tom Wlaschiha (1973), and Heinrich Burger (1881).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 128Before him are Wilhelm Gesenius (1786), Rüdiger Safranski (1945), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), Gottlob Ernst Schulze (1761), Immanuel Hermann Fichte (1796), and Paul Deussen (1845). After him are Hermann Gunkel (1862), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Volker Zotz (1956), Walter Kaufmann (1921), and Richard David Precht (1964).