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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Martin Chemnitz has received more than 129,904 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Martin Chemnitz is the 1,131st most popular philosopher (down from 1,052nd in 2019), the 4,581st most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,037th in 2019) and the 142nd most popular German Philosopher.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Martin Chemnitz ranks 1,131 out of 1,267. Before him are Ion Dragoumis, George Gerbner, André Comte-Sponville, Gary L. Francione, Phan Thanh Giản, and Hicetas. After him are Nancy Cartwright, Albert Razin, Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Friedrich Gogarten, Polemon of Athens, and Thomas van Erpe.

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Contemporaries

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

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 4,581 out of 7,253. Before him are Marie Hankel (1844), Willy Birgel (1891), Reiner Kunze (1933), Serge Gnabry (1995), Walter Brack (1880), and Bruno Frank (1887). After him are Konrad von Würzburg (1225), Dora Doll (1922), Hans Zender (1936), Günther Beckstein (1943), Theodor Loos (1883), and Nina Hoss (1975).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Germany

Among philosophers born in Germany, Martin Chemnitz ranks 142. Before him are Georg Anton Friedrich Ast (1778), Heymann Steinthal (1823), Adolf Grünbaum (1923), Josef Pieper (1904), Friedrich Wilhelm Foerster (1869), and Friedrich Eduard Beneke (1798). After him are Friedrich Gogarten (1887), Dieter Henrich (1927), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Hermann Lietz (1868), Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde (1930), and Walter Kaufmann (1921).

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