Johann Kaspar Hechtel

Johann Kaspar Hechtel ( born May 1, 1771 in Nuremberg, † December 20, 1799 ) was a German businessman, owner of a brass factory in Nuremberg, nonfiction author and developer of social games in particular, the prototype for the Petit Lenormand, The Game of hope.

Life

Hechtel was born on 1 May 1771 in Nuremberg. He died on 20 December 1799 in Nuremberg during a smallpox epidemic, leaving his wife.

Works

  • Collection of friendly monuments and small lessons of wisdom and virtue. Intended for use in stud books and to mental and moral refinement young people. ( Bieling, 1798)
  • Second Edition: Monuments of friendship and little lessons of wisdom and virtue, for use in stud books and mind and morals of young people finishing ( Bieling, 1803)
  • Third Edition: Monuments of friendship for regular books and moral lessons for young people finishing manners ( Bieling, 1809)
  • Fourth Edition: Monuments of friendship for regular books and moral lessons for young people finishing manners ( Bieling, 1819)
  • Contributions to social joy or selecting new card pledges and entertainment games for the benefit and pleasure of working with illumirten engravings ( Bieling, 1798)
  • Pandora, a new dice and board game with 24 questions and 144 answers jocular ( Bieling, 1798)
  • The game of hope, a pleasant entertainment company with 36 new illumirten character cards, French and German (Le Jeu de l' Esperance, accompagné d'un nouveau jeu de cartes à figures ) ( Bieling, c1799 )

Lenormand

The name " Lenormand " was after the death of the famous French fortune teller Marie Anne Lenormand (deceased 1843) used for some card reading leaves. One of the games was the still popular today " Petit Lenormand " with 36 illustrated cards. The motives of the cards go back to the game of hope developed by Hechtel, a racing game with two dice in which the game plan was combined with 36 cards and that was alternatively also been used for fortune telling cards. A preserved specimen is in the collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber in the British Museum. Getting knowledge about the game is given in 1799 by an advertising book catalog of the publisher Gustav Philipp Jacob Bieling in Nuremberg.

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