Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sun, 23 Aug 2026 07:08:20 +0200https://english.radio.cz/reprint-ottos-encyclopaedia-complete-8078302© 2026 Radio Prague International In a café, just two numbers away from the Dum Panu z Kunstatu in Prague's Old Town, two publishing houses, Argo and Paseka, announced this week that their joint effort, that had lasted for seven years, has successfully come to a head. The two publishers decided to reprint one as yet unsurpassed work of Czech lexicography, the forty-tome Ottuv slovnik naucny or Otto's Encyclopaedia which was first published between 1888 and 1908. At the end of the 19th century, publisher Jan Otto drew together a team of leading Czech academics who compiled a monumental encyclopaedia which till this day remains the one source of information Czechs turn to if they need to find for example everything about watermills. Milan Gelnar is the director of the publishing house Argo, one of the two publishers of the reprinted Otto's Encyclopaedia. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/ottuv_slovnik.jpg?timestamp=1590269110 https://english.radio.cz/reprint-ottos-encyclopaedia-complete-8078302 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9