Zlatá Praha

The magazine Zlatá Praha was founded by Vítězslav Hálek and produced by the publishing house of Karel Seyfried from early 1864.

It contained articles by Karel Jaromír Erben (Stará radní síň, Old Councillor Hall), Karel Vít Hof (Pouť na Velehrad, Pilgrimage to Velehrad) and Emanuel Tonner (Starý hřbitov židovský v Praze, Old Jewish Cemetery in Prague), a section focused on literature and theater, a short story by Karolína Světlá (Lamač a jeho dcera, Lamač and his Daughter), and poems by Vítězslav Hálek and Emanuel Züngel.

In a reaction, the magazine Národní listy appreciated the high quality of illustrations and text and supported subsequent activities of Zlatá Praha.

The promising development of the magazine ended in mid-1865, after its publisher Karel Seyfried committed suicide by shooting himself in the woods surrounding Teplice (on 22 June 1865).

In July 1865, the Národní listy reported that publishing of Zlatá Praha would apparently stop, due to the delayed settling of Seyfried's estate.

Zlatá Praha was published weekly and brought articles from the fields of science and culture, geography, philosophy and aesthetics.