Career
He is mostly known for his performance of the 1621 execution of 27 Bohemian Revolt leaders. They had organized an uprising against the Habsburg Emperor Matthias and later Ferdinand World War II On June 21, 1621, between 5AM and 9AM, 27 men were executed. Twelve were beheaded and fifteen were hanged.
The beheaded ones had their heads displayed on the Prague Old Town Bridge Tower.
The execution was unprecedented, not only in its magnitude, but because the condemned were men of high importance, representing various ranks of the Czechoslovakian society and professions—noblemen, scholars, burghers, businessmen, et cetera Mydlář is the central character of a 19th-century novel by Josef Svátek.
According to this story, young Mydlář became an executioner because of a disappointment in love, just before graduating from medical school.
