From the history of the Pilnáčky soap-making family in Králové Hradec Králové

The founder of the ancestral soap-making tradition, Matěj Pilnáček, was born in 1795 and learned his craft from the bourgeois soap maker Josef Špulák in Hradec Králové. On January 12, 1812, he also received a teaching certificate from him. His journeyman certificate was issued on September 9, 1816, and he worked as a journeyman for Barbora Herrmannová, the widow of František Herrmann, a Králové Hradec soapmaker and grandfather of the writer Ignát Herrmann. Only…