Bagpiper and ethnographer, significant figure of Czech ethnography, expert on bagpiping. Played violin, later joining the Strakonice secondary school student orchestra on viola and double bass, as well as a Strakonice bagpiping group. In 1949, he founded the Ethnographic collective, which later evolved into the folk singing and dancing collective in Prácheň. Josef Režný became his artistic mentor and bagpiper.

He would engage himself in collection, focusing on Prácheňsko – especially the surroundings of Strakonice, Volyně and Podlesí. He had successfully collected over a thousand folk songs, publishing almost half of them, as well as 76 different dances, records and transcripts of bagpipe playing. He would also make notes of dialects, proverbs, sayings or customs.

He is the author of various publications, such as Dudy a Dudáci, Škola Hry na České Dudy, Po Stopách Dudáků na Prácheňsku, Písně a Řeči Vážné – Nevážné – Darebné, 5000 Let s Dudami.

He is the co-founder and organizer of the South-Bohemian Singing and Dancing Festival in Strakonice (1955–1961), as well as a bagpiping festival in Strakonice later on.

In 2008, he became an honorary citizen of Strakonice. In 2012, he met his audience for the last time on the occasion of the 20th International Bagpiping Festival.