Premonstratensian - Famous Premonstratensians

Famous Premonstratensians

• Fr. Andrew Ciferni Italian-American Liturgist
• Robert J. Cornell (1919–2009), Democratic U.S. Congressman from Wisconsin from 1975–1979 and professor of political science at St. Norbert College.
• Prokop Diviš (1698–1765), Czech inventor
• Jean Druys (?–1635), Belgian canon regular and abbot
• Astrik L. Gabriel (1907–2005), director of the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame from 1952 to 1975.
• Charles-Louis Hugo (1667–1739), French historian and bishop
• St. Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld (1150?–1241), German canon regular and mystic
• Johann Lohel (1549–1622), Bohemian prior who later became archbishop of Prague.
• Fr. Alfred McBride ordained 1953, founder and executive director of the department of religious education at the National Catholic Educational Association, author of forty books on the Bible, history of the Mass, etc.
• Brendan Smyth (1927–1997), Irish paedophile
• Werenfried van Straaten (1913–2003), known for his humanitarian work, particularly as founder of the international Catholic association Aid to the Church in Need.
• Francis Wichmans (1596–1661), Belgian abbot
• Johann Zahn (1631–1707), German canon who wrote on the camera obscura and who invented an early camera.
• Fr. Xavier de Fourvière (1853-1912 Celebrated preacher, author and poet in the Provençal language; Prior of Storrington (W. Sussex) Our Lady of England Priory 1903-1912