He attended Latin and Greek lectures by Georg Sabinus, Professor of Poetry and Eloquence and Philipp Melanchthon's son-in-law.

[3] Afterwards, Stymmelius was head of the school in Beeskow and from 1553 court preacher to Count von der Schulenburg in Lübbenau/Spreewald.

The eldest daughter married Christian, the mayor of Stendal, and the other, Regina, the prepositus Veit Smaler in Penkun (1573).

[5] On September 12, 1597, Sophrosyne Stummel, "daughter of the deceased pastor Dr. Christoph Stymmelius and Barbara Weidlich", married the archdeacon and Hebrew professor Joachim Praetorius from Stettin.

The marriage produced three sons, including the later Brandenburg consistorial councillor Joachim Christoph Praetorius, and four daughters, of whom Sophrosyne the younger married the Pomeranian historian, poet and theologian Johannes Micraelius.