Career
From 1902 to 1919, he served as a professor at the provincial academy in Tábor, followed by a professorship in botany and plant pathology at the agricultural university in Brno. From 1920 to 1925, he was a professor at the Czechoslovakian Technical University in Prague (Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry). He was the author of numerous papers involving fungi native to Bohemia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Galicia, Hungary, Istria, Montenegro, Moravia, Russia and Tyrol.
He also published works on North American fungi.
The mycological genus Bubakia is named in his honor.