Born: April 21, 1532, Strass­burg, Ger­ma­ny.

Died: De­cem­ber 19/29, 1608, Nürn­berg, Ger­ma­ny.

Martin was the son of Mar­tin Schall­ing, some­time pas­tor at Strass­burg (af­ter 1534, pas­tor at Wei­ters­wei­ler, near Saar­brück­en). He en­rolled in 1550 at the Un­i­ver­si­ty of Wit­ten­berg, where he be­came a fa­vo­rite pupil of Phil­ipp Me­lanch­thon, and friend of Ni­ko­laus Sel­neck­er. After earn­ing his MA de­gree, he con­tinued as a lec­tur­er in Wit­ten­berg for a short time, then be­came di­a­co­nus in Re­gens­burg in 1554, and around 1558 di­a­co­nus in Am­berg, Ober­pfalz. In 1568, after Elec­tor Fried­rich III of the Pa­la­tin­ate made Cal­vin­is­tic ser­vice­s the or­der of the day, Schall­ing had to leave Am­berg. How­ev­er, Fried­rich’s son, Duke Lud­wig, re­mained a Lu­ther­an, and he let Schall­ing serve the Lu­ther­ans at Vil­seck, near Am­berg. When Lud­wig became Re­gent of the Ober­pfalz, he re­called Schall­ing to Am­berg in 1576 as court preach­er and su­per­in­ten­dent. When Lud­wig be­came Elect­or of the Pfalz in1576, he ap­point­ed Schall­ing as Gen­er­al-Su­per­in­ten­dent of the Ober­pfalz, and court preach­er at Hei­del­berg. But when the cler­gy of the Ober­pfalz were pressed to sign the For­mu­la of Con­cord, Schall­ing he­si­tated, hold­ing that it dealt too harsh­ly with the fol­low­ers of Me­lanch­thon. For this, he was ban­ished from the court at Hei­del­berg; af­ter be­ing con­fined to his house at Am­berg from 1580 to March 1583, he was fin­al­ly stripped of his of­fic­es. There­af­ter he stayed for some time at Alt­dorf, but was ap­point­ed in 1585 as pas­tor of St. Ma­ry’s Church in Nürn­berg, where he re­mained un­til blind­ness made him re­tire.

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Hymns

  1. Herzlich Lieb hab ich dich, O Herr

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