[1] He is especially noted for his Christmas pastorals and for his initiation of a literary brotherhood within Bohemia.
In the period official register, his name was entered as Linka, but he always signed himself Linek.
[3] From 1747 to his death, he was a teacher, choirmaster and member of the literary fraternity in Bakov nad Jizerou.
Many of his religious works were composed on Czech texts.
He composed at least thirty pastorals, Easter sepolcros, as well as devotional pieces dedicated to St. John Nepomucene.