Chemnitz (or Kemnitz), Martin (1522-1586)

German Lutheran clergyman. He studied at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder, and then at Wittenberg, where he came under the influence of Martin Luther and Philip Melanchthon. He won acclaim as an orator and controversialist. Bitterly opposed to the Jesuits, he inveighed against them in many pamphlets, especially in his Theologiae Jesuitorum praecipua capita and Examen concilii Tridentini (1563-73). Chemnitz was born in Treuenbrietzen, Brandenburg, Germany.