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Premonstratensians Presbyter
especially represented in England and North America. 0- GbOtzmacher.
Bibliography: Sources for the life of the founder are the two lives with additions produced in MGH, Script., xii (1881), 663-706, and in part in ASB, June, i. 819-858, and MPL, clxx. 1253-1344, Germ, transl. by G. Hertel in Geschichtsschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit, Leipsic, 1881; Herimann's Ex miracidis S. Marice Laudunensis, in MGH, Script., xii. 653-660; the Vita Godefridi, in the same, pp. 513-530; the Gesta archiepiscoporum Magdeburgensium, in MGH, Script., xiv (1883), 412; and the Fundatio monasterii Gratia Dei, in MGH, Script., xx (1888), 683-691. On the early lives consult R. Rosenmund, Die altesten Biographien des heiligen Norbert, Berlin . 1874. A rich literature is indicated in Potthast, Wegweiser, pp. 1494-1496, giving materials for an exhaustive study; cf. Wattenbach, DGQ, ii (1886), 233-236, ii (1894), 263-265. Consult further: A. Tenkhoff, Der heilige Norbert, Minister, 1865; W Bernhardi, in ADB, vol. xxiv.; idem, Lothar von Supplinburg, Leipsic, 1875; M. Geuden, The Life of St. Norbert, London, 1886; G. Madelaine, Hist, de S. Norbert, 2d ed., Lille, 1887.
On the order: The rules, etc., may be found in E. Martene, De antiquis ecclesice ritibus, iii. 229 sqq., Antwerp, 1764; L. Holstenius, Codex regularum, v. 162 sqq., Augsburg, 1759; M. Du Pre\ Annates breves ordinis Proemonstratensis, ed., I. van Spilbeeck, Namur, 1886; J. de Paige, Bibliotheca Prcemonstratensis ordinis, 2 vols., Paris, 1663. For accounts of the order consult: Heimbucher, Orden und Kongregationen, ii. 50-69, 83-85 (contains a fine selected list of literature) ; Helyot, Ordres monastiques, ii. 156 sqq.; Leuckfeld, Antiquitates Proemonstratenses, Magdeburg, 1721; F. Winter, Die Prcemonstratenser des 12. Jahrhunderts und ihre Bedeutung fiir das nordostliche Deutsohland, Berlin, 1865; C. Taiee, Premontre, 2 vols., Laon, 1872; I. Coldefy, Etudes sur Vordre sacre de Premontre, Perigueux, 1879; M. Geudens, A Sketch of the P,a>monstratensian Order in Great Britain and Ireland, London, 1878; idem, Natuur, Samenstelling end Zendig der Order van Prcemonstreit, Averbode, 1894; idem, Annus asceticus Norbertinus sive monita spiritualia excerpta, Buckley
Hall, 1895; F. Danner, Catalogus totius ordinis Prcemonstratensis, Innsbruck, 1894; F. A. Gasquet, The English Prcemonstratensians, in Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, vol. xvii., London, 1903; J. von Walter, Die ersten Wanderprediger Frankreichs, ii. 119-129, Leipsic, 1906; Schaff, Christian Church, v. 1, pp. 360-361; KL, x. 267 sqq.
PRENTISS, ELIZABETH PAYSON: American mthor; b. at Portland, Me., Oct. 26, 1818; d. at Dorset, Vt., Aug. 13, 1878. While a young girl she )egan to write for The Youth's Companion. In 1845 ;he was married to George Lewis Prentiss (q.v.), ;hen just ordained as a pastor in New Bedford, Mass. 5he published more than twenty volumes, among tfhich were the Little Susy Library (New York, 1854) ; The Flower of the Family (1854); Only a Dandeion and other Stories (1854); Fred, Maria, and Me (1867); The Little Preacher (1867); The Percys 1870); The Home at Greylock (1876); Pemaquid 1877); Avis Benson and Other Sketches (1879); and ler most famous work, Stepping Heavenward (1869) : iese works had an enormous sale in America. Wany of them were republished in Great Britain, and lad a wide circulation there. The Flower of the Family, Stepping Heavenward, and several others, A'ere translated into French and German. The atter made the strongest impression ; it is estimated ;hat more than 100,000 copies have been sold in America. She was the author also of the hymn, ' More love to thee, O Christ."
^bliography: G. L. Prentiss, Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss, New York, 1882, new ed., 1886; S. W. Duffield, Enqlish Hymns, p. 358, ib. 1886; Julian, Hymnoiogy, p. 908.
PRENTISS, GEORGE LEWIS: Presbyterian; b. at Gorham, Me., May 12, 1816; d. at New York Mar. 19, 1903. He graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1835; was assistant in Gorham Academy, 1836-37; studied theology at the universities of Halle and Berlin (1839-41); and became pastor of the South Trinitarian Church, New Bedford, Mass., 1845. In April, 1851, he was installed pastor of the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church, New York; resigned on account of ill-health in the spring of 1858, and sought rest in Europe for the next two years. On his return he organized the Church of the Covenant, New York, and was pastor, 1862-73; and professor of pastoral theology, church polity, and mission work, in Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1873-97. He published A Memoir of Seargent S. Prentiss (2 vols., New York, 1855; later ed., 1879); The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss (1882); The Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York (3 vols., New York, 1889-99) ; and The Bright Side of Life (autobiographic, 2 vols., 1901).