Until 1876, Prins was privately tutored, after which time he continued his studies in Amsterdam and moved to Frankfurt in 1887.

After he reached middle age, Liepman decided to devote the rest of his life to serious and exhaustive Jewish studies; as part of his investigation he corresponded with many scholars of his generation.

[1] In 1885 Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins took his family to Frankfurt, where he continued to study and write on a variety of Jewish and general subjects.

Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins edited and published the following books: In recent years more details became known about him as one of his grandchildren, Els Bendheim, initiated the publication of his correspondence, the marginal notes he made in his books, and an anthology of his work in Dutch.

The Eliezer Liepman Philip Prins library, consisting of 6,000 books, was moved to Jerusalem (and opened to the public in 1930); it is still kept as such at the Lifshitz College of Education.