Martin Chemnitz

(1522-1586)

German Lutheran theologian and reformer

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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. 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.

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Born	1522 Treuenbrietzen, Margraviate of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire
Died	1586 (aged 63) Braunschweig, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire
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