Johann Kaspar Hechtel [SEP] place of death
Johann Kaspar Hechtel
Johann Kaspar Hechtel (1 May 1771 – 20 December 1799) was a German businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, non-fiction writer and designer of parlour games including the prototype for the Petit Lenormand cartomancy deck. According to published biographies, Hechtel also contributed anonymously to some treatises on physics.
Early life.
Hechtel was born on 1 May 1771 in Nuremberg.
Death.
Hechtel died on 20 December 1799 in Nuremberg during a smallpox epidemic and was survived by a wife
(1817-1884)
- Albrecht Dürer (painter and engraver)
- Heinrich Egersdörfer (artist)
- Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach
- Hans Folz (poet)
- Kaspar Hauser
- Johann Kaspar Hechtel (board game designer)
- Peter Henlein (1485-1542), clockmaker
- Kunegunde Hergot, printer
- Siegfried Bettmann
- Augustin Hirschvogel
- Karl Holz (Nazi) (1895-1945), German Nazi
- Siegfried Jerusalem (operatic tenor)
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