or Chemnitzus Martin, a famous Lutheran divine, the disciple of Melanchthon, was born at Britzen, in Brandenburg, in 1522. He was employed in several important negotiations by the princes of the Lutheran communion, and he died in April 1586. His principal work is *Examen Concilii Tridentini*, Frankfort, 1585, in 4 vols. fol. and 4to. This work comprises a course of theology for the use of the Protestant churches. Another production of Chemnitz, scarcely less celebrated than his Examination of the Council of Trent, is his *Treatise on Indulgences*, which was translated from Latin into French, and printed at Geneva in 1599, 8vo.

or Schenmitz, a circle in the province of Hither Danube, in Hungary. It extends round the city of the same name, which is one of the chief mining districts in the Austrian dominions. The city, with its suburbs, which are very extensive, contains 1692 houses, and 20,240 inhabitants, of whom more than 8000 are employed directly or indirectly in the mines. There are eighteen mines in the circle, which yield gold, silver, copper, iron, arsenic, and saltpetre, to the amount of two hundred thousand pounds. The city is elevated 2150 feet above the level of the sea, in a rocky soil, from which the river Chemnitz rises. It contains four Catholic churches and one Lutheran, an institution for mineralogy, and two gymnasia for Catholics and Lutherans, with six professors and a hundred and forty students. Long. 18. 54. E. Lat. 48. 47. 45. N.

a city in the circle of Erzgebirge, of the kingdom of Saxony; the chief place of a bailiwick of the same name. It is situated on a plain elevated about nine hundred and forty feet above the level of the sea, on the rivers Chemnitz and Gablenz. It contains 12,000 inhabitants, who are industriously employed in various branches of the cotton, linen, and woollen manufacture; and in the trades of brewers, distillers, hatters, and hosiers. About a mile from the city is the ancient electoral palace of the reigning family.