or CHEMNITIUS, MARTIN (1522–1589), a famous Lutheran divine, the disciple of Melanchton, was born at Britzen in Brandenburg. He was employed in several important negotiations by the Lutheran princes, and was professor at Brunswick for 30 years. He wrote Examen Concilii Tridentini, Frankf. 1585, 4 vols. fol. and 4to; A Treatise on Indulgences, 8vo, Geneva, 1599; Harmonia Evangelica, 1600, and Theologiae Jesuitarum principia capitla, Rochelle, 1589.

town of Saxony, in the circle of Zwickau, stands in a beautiful and well-watered valley on the river Chemnitz, an affluent of the Mulde, 35 miles W.S.W. of Dresden. It is the first manufacturing town in Saxony. In point of population it ranks third, having (1849) 30,753 inhabitants, of whom 30,036 are Lutherans. The cotton goods, especially stockings, for which it is chiefly celebrated, and to which it owes its present prosperity, rival even those of England in quality and cheapness; one factory, the largest in Saxony, having 18,600 spindles. It is also celebrated for the making of spinning machinery. Chemnitz is a place of considerable trade, exporting a great part of its industrial products to the United States; and has manufactures of linens, bleaching and dye works, and tanneries. A railway connects it with Riesa, and thence with Leipzig, Dresden, Berlin, &c. The town is neat, clean, and well built, containing many fine edifices, among which may be mentioned the great church, town-house, and cloth-hall. Chemnitz was for four centuries a free imperial city.