First Bohemian Encyclopaedia, published in 14 volumes between years 1858 and 1874 by Ignac Leopold Kober, the most important Prague publisher of 19th century, great enthusiast and supporter of many writers of that time. Kober (born 1825, died prematurely 1866), originally German publisher of novels became supporter of Czech national revivalist movement. He started many extremely risky publishing activities in order to produce modern scholar books comparable to those of other independent nations. Slovnik Naucny, his probably largest project was edited by F. L. Rieger and J. Maly.