The title of the first Polish encyclopedia is also claimed by older works, e.g. Inventores rerum by Jan Protasowicz encyclopedia from 1608, Encyclopaedia Natvralis Entis by Stanisław Stokowski from 1637 and the Nowe Ateny from 1745.
Universal Encyclopedia was published in Warsaw in Congress Poland - the Polish territory of the Russian partition.
In 1984–1985, a reprint of the original version was published in Poland.
The creators of the publication's content were many representatives of the Polish nineteenth-century intelligentsia.
It contained the following names:[2] It counted a total of 28 volumes, each of which had almost 1000 pages: