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Matthäus Friedrich Chemnitz (18151870)
Chemnitz, Matthäus Friedrich (ċhem’nits). A German song-writer; born in Barmstedt, Holstein, June 10, 1815; died at Altona, Holstein, April 14, 1870. He was a legal functionary, whose patriotic song of ‘Sea-Girt Schleswig-Holstein’ came universally into favor and obtained a place for his name in literature.