Johann Kaspar Hechtel

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Johann Kaspar Hechtel, portrait (copper engraving by Leonhard Schlemmer (1800) after Leonhard Heinrich Hessell (1799))

Johann Kaspar Hechtel (born May 1, 1771 in Nuremberg ; † December 20, 1799 ibid) was a German merchant, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction author and developer of board games, especially the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cards , The Game of Hope .

Life

Hechtel was born on May 1, 1771 in Nuremberg. He died on December 20, 1799 in Nuremberg during a smallpox epidemic , leaving behind his wife. A profound, genealogically supported biography contains Alexander Glück: Spiel der Hoffnung. Origin and development of the Lenormand cards (Krummwisch, 2017).

Works

  • Collection of friendly monuments and small teachings of wisdom and virtue. Intended for use in studbooks and for refining young people's spirit and morals. (Bieling, 1798)
  • Second edition: Monuments of friendship and small lessons of wisdom and virtue, for use in family books and refinement of young people's spirit and morals (Bieling, 1803)
  • Third edition: Monuments of friendship for family records and moral teachings for the ennobling of young people (Bieling, 1809), reissued in 2017.
  • Fourth edition: Monuments of friendship for family books and moral teachings for the ennobling of young people (Bieling, 1819)
  • Contributions to social enjoyment or the selection of new card, pledge and entertainment games for use and pleasure, with illumined coppers (Bieling, 1798), reissued in 2019.
  • Pandora, a new dice and parlor game with 24 questions and 144 funny answers (Bieling, 1798)
  • The game of hope, a pleasant social entertainment with 36 new illustrated figure cards, French. and German (Le Jeu de l'Esperance, accompagné d'un nouveau jeu de cartes à figures) (Bieling, c1799), reissued in 2014.

Lenormand cards

The name "Lenormand" was used for some Kartomantie sheets after the death of the French fortune-teller Marie Anne Lenormand (deceased in 1843). One of the games was the "Petit Lenormand" with 36 illustrated cards, which is still popular today. The motifs of the cards go back to the game of hope developed by Hechtel, a racing game with 2 dice in which the game board was combined with 36 cards and which was also used as a substitute for card prophecy. A preserved copy is in the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber in the British Museum. First knowledge of the game was given in 1799 through an advertising book catalog by the publisher Gustav Philipp Jacob Bieling in Nuremberg.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800, Volume 5 . Gerhard Fleischer, Leipzig 1805.
  2. ^ Christian Gottlob Kayser: Complete Lexicon of Books 1750-1832: Third Part HL . Ludwig Schumann, Leipzig 1835.
  3. ↑ a b Humorous sheets for head and heart . Gustav Philipp Jakob Bieling, Nuremberg 1799.
  4. ↑ Valentin Karl Veillodter: Monument of friendship at the grave of a worthy man, Mr. Johann Kaspar Hechtels, in the name of his wife and his closest friends reported in 1800.
  5. ↑ Detlef Hoffmann, Erika Kroppenstedt: fortune-telling cards: a contribution to the history of occultism . German Playing Cards Museum, Bielefeld 1972, pp. 17, 21.

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personal data
SURNAME Hechtel, Johann Kaspar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German non-fiction author and game author
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 1799
Place of death Nuremberg