A highly influential Czech historian and politician FrantiÅek Palackà (1798â1876) became in 1825 the first editor of the journal of the Bohemian Museum a key cultural institution in the development of Czech nationalism. He was actively involved in the nineteenth-century Czech national revival helping also to found the Czech national theatre. Entering politics in 1848 he served as president of the Prague Slavic Congress and later became a member of the Austrian senate as a supporter of greater Czech autonomy. In this extensive work comprising ten separate parts - published in German between 1836 and 1867 - Palackà gives a detailed account of Bohemian history until 1526. It remains an important and ambitious feat of scholarship still relevant to students of central European history. Volume 4 deals with the era of George of PodÄbrady; this first part (1857) covers the years 1439â57. Language: German