Stefan Böhm (December 25, 1741 – February 26, 1813) was a Warsaw

Warsaw

Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...

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Executioner

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After leaving medical studies on University of Königsberg

University of Königsberg

The University of Königsberg was the university of Königsberg in East Prussia. It was founded in 1544 as second Protestant academy by Duke Albert of Prussia, and was commonly known as the Albertina....

 he became an official in Karol Stanisław "Panie Kochanku" Radziwiłł lands. Then he joined the Bar Confederation

Bar Confederation

The Bar Confederation was an association of Polish nobles formed at the fortress of Bar in Podolia in 1768 to defend the internal and external independence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth against Russian influence and against King Stanisław August Poniatowski and Polish reformers who were...

 and was seriously injured in the head during a battle with Russia

Russia

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n forces in Tyniec

Tyniec

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. He was saved and fled to Lidzbark Warmiński

Lidzbark Warminski

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, where he lived with the local executioner, named Mueller, who taught him this profession.

In 1793, after working as a supervisor over one of the bridges over the Bug River

Bug River

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, Böhm was pressured by President of Warsaw

President of Warsaw

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 Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski

Ignacy Wyssogota Zakrzewski

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 to take a job as the Warsaw executioner, which post vacated after Jan Mueller, brother of Libdbark executioner.

Böhm was very popular among the Warsaw citizens. There was even a saying: you'll go to Stefanek for a dinner, which means of course being executed by him.

Böhm carried out most of executions on Targowica Confederation

Targowica Confederation

The Targowica Confederation was a confederation established by Polish and Lithuanian magnates on 27 April 1792, in Saint Petersburg, with the backing of the Russian Empress Catherine II. The confederation opposed the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791, which had been adopted by the Great Sejm,...

 leaders during Kościuszko Uprising

Kosciuszko Uprising

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