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RIEGER, PHILIPP FRIEDRICK VON (1818-1903) , Bohemian politician and publicist, was See also:born on the 18th of See also:December 1818 at Semil in the circle of Jicin, Bohemia. He first came into prominence as one of the See also:Czech leaders in the revolution of 1848. He was returned by seven constituencies to the Reichtstag at See also:Vienna, where he was the See also:leader of the Czech party. In 1853 he married a daughter of the historian Palacky. In 1858 he started the Slovnik naucny, the Czech See also:national See also:encyclopaedia, the first See also:volume of which was published in 1859, the 11th and last in 1874. He was also instrumental in See also:founding the first Czech See also:political daily newspaper published in See also:Prague; which appeared on the 1st of See also:January 1861, and of which he was for awhile the editor. After the issue of the " See also:October diploma " of 186o, Rieger, with his See also:father-in-See also:law, Palacky, undertook the leadership of the reconstituted Czech party, and after the decision of this party in 1863 no longer to attend the See also:Austrian Reichsrath, he led the agitation in favour of the restoration of the Bohemian See also:kingdom. In 1871 he conducted the negotiations with the Hohenenwarth See also:ministry for a federal constitution of the See also:empire, which See also:broke down owing to his extreme attitude in the See also:matter of Bohemian See also:independence. On the reappearance of the Czechs in the Bohemian See also:diet (1878) and the Austrian Reichsrath (1879) Rieger was one of the leaders of the federalist See also:majority supporting See also:Count See also:Taaffe's See also:government and the See also:chief of the so-called " Old Czechs." On his seventieth birthday (December 1o, 1888) he received a national See also:gift of 100,000 gulden; but, in spite of this See also:evidence of his popularity, his conservatism, his See also:close connexion with the Bohemian See also:nobility and his clerical tendencies brought him into conflict with the growing See also:influence of the See also:radical " See also:Young Czech " party, and in 1891, together with • the other " Old Czechs," he was defeated at the See also:poll. In See also:March 1897 he was created a See also:baron (Freiherr) and given a seat in the Upper See also:House. He continued occasionally to interfere in politics; but his influence was now at an end, though when he died, on the 3rd of March 1903, his funeral at Prague was made the occasion of a magnificent demonstraton of respect.

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