Preger, Johann Wilhelm

D.D. (Erlangen, 1874), German Protestant; b. at Schweinfurt, Aug. 25, 1827; studied at Erlangen and Berlin; became profe or in the Munich Protestant preachers' seminary, 1850; and since 1851 has been profe or of religion and history in the Munich gymnasium. In 1868 he was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Die Geschiclite der Lehre vom geist lichen Amte auf Grund der Geschiclite der Rechtfertigungslehre, Nordlingen, 1857; Matthias Flacius Illyricus und seine Zeit, Erlangen, 1859-61, 2 vols.; Die Briefe He in rich Suso's nach ein. Handschrift des X V. Jahrh., Leipzig, 1867 Dantes Matelda, 1873; Das Evangelium ozternum. und Joachim von Floris, 1874; Geschichte der deutschen Mystik im Mit tel alter, 1874-81, 2 vols.; Beitrdge zur Geschichte der Waldesier, Miinchen, 1875; Tract at des David von Augsburg iiber die Waldesier, 1878; Beitrdge u. Erbrterungen zur Geschichte des Deutschen Reiches in den Jahren 1380-81)., 1880; Ueber die Anfdnge d. kir chen pol it is chen Kampfes unter Ludwig dem Baier, 1882. PRENTISS,-George Lewis, D.D. (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1854), Presbyterian; b. at Gorham, Me., May 12, 1816; graduated at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1835, and was a istant in Gorham Academy, 1836-37. He studied theology at the universities of Halle and Berlin (1839-41), enjoying the friendship of Tholuck in the former place; and became pastor of the South Trinitarian Church, New Bedford., Ma ., April, 1845. In April, 1851, he was installed pastor of the Mercer-street Presbyterian Church, New-York City; resigned on account of ill health in the spring of 1858, and sought rest in Europe for the next two years. On his return, the " Church of the Covenant," Murray Hill, New-York City, was gathered by him; and he remained its pastor from the spring of 1862 until April, 1873, when he resigned to become Skinner and McAlpin profe or of pastoral theology, church polity, and mi ion work, in Union Theological Seminary, New-York City; and this position he now occupies. Besides numerous sermons, addre es, and articles in periodicals, he has published A Memoir of Seargent S, Prenti (his brother), New York, 1855, 2 vols., new ed. 1879; A Discourse in Memory of Thomas Harvey Skinner, D.D., LL.D., 1871; The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prenti (his wife), 1882.