Frederic Shoberl/Schoberl (1775-1853) was a journalist, translator, editor and writer. He was the author of: Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred in and Near Leipzig (1814), Suffolk; or, Original Delineations, Topographical, Historical, and Descriptive (1818), The Natural History of Birds (1836), Prince Albert and the House of Saxony with a Particular Memoir of the Reigning Family of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840), Excursions in Normandy (1841), Frederick the Great and his Times (1842), Persecutions of Popery (1844) and Scenes of the Civil War in Hungary, in 1848 and 1849 (1850). He was commissioned to edit a series entitled The World in Miniature, published over a period of 27 years starting in 1821 by the R. Ackerman publishing house. Titles include: Tibet and the India Beyond the Ganges (1821), Hindoostan (1822), Russia (1822), Austria (1823), The Netherlands (1823), Japan (1824), Spain and Portugal (1825) and Persia (1828). He also edited the Forget Me Not (1823-53) and Ackermann's Juvenile Forget Me Not (1830-32) annuals.