1522 - Today
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, Martin Chemnitz ranks 1,070 out of 1,081. Before 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.
1956 - Present
HPI: 47.32
Rank: 1,064
1500 - 1567
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,065
450 - 520
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,066
1939 - Present
HPI: 47.23
Rank: 1,067
1883 - 1951
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 1,068
1935 - Present
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 1,069
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 1,070
1904 - 1984
HPI: 46.95
Rank: 1,071
1950 - Present
HPI: 46.93
Rank: 1,072
1942 - Present
HPI: 46.90
Rank: 1,073
1952 - Present
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 1,074
1919 - 2002
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 1,075
1584 - 1624
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 1,076
Among people born in 1522, Martin Chemnitz ranks 19. Before 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.
1522 - 1583
HPI: 56.00
Rank: 13
1522 - 1557
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 14
1522 - 1590
HPI: 54.06
Rank: 15
1522 - 1581
HPI: 51.56
Rank: 16
1522 - 1575
HPI: 51.37
Rank: 17
1522 - 1590
HPI: 51.00
Rank: 18
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 19
Among people born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 4,050 out of 6,142. Before 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).
1961 - Present
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 4,044
1908 - 1993
HPI: 47.13
Rank: 4,045
1950 - Present
HPI: 47.12
Rank: 4,046
1682 - 1736
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,047
1924 - 2016
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,048
1794 - 1866
HPI: 47.11
Rank: 4,049
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 4,050
1759 - 1814
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,051
1925 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,052
1815 - 1840
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,053
1938 - 2017
HPI: 47.08
Rank: 4,054
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.06
Rank: 4,055
1881 - 1942
HPI: 47.05
Rank: 4,056
Among philosophers born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 128. Before 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).
1786 - 1842
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 122
1945 - Present
HPI: 48.75
Rank: 123
1869 - 1966
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 124
1761 - 1833
HPI: 48.53
Rank: 125
1796 - 1879
HPI: 48.38
Rank: 126
1845 - 1919
HPI: 48.08
Rank: 127
1522 - Present
HPI: 47.09
Rank: 128
1862 - 1932
HPI: 46.45
Rank: 129
1930 - 2019
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 130
1864 - 1937
HPI: 45.84
Rank: 131
1956 - Present
HPI: 44.16
Rank: 132
1921 - 1980
HPI: 42.45
Rank: 133
1964 - Present
HPI: 42.39
Rank: 134