Home›Open Questions›What was Johann Kaspar Hechtel's birth year?Open QuestionsWhat was Johann Kaspar Hechtel's birth year?Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "What was Johann Kaspar Hechtel's birth year?." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-johann-kaspar-hechtels-birth-year.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). What was Johann Kaspar Hechtel's birth year?. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-johann-kaspar-hechtels-birth-yearCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-what-was-johann-kaspar-hechtel-s-birth-y, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {What was Johann Kaspar Hechtel's birth year?}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/open-questions-index/what-was-johann-kaspar-hechtels-birth-year}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXOpen QuestionCross-Tradition ConnectionsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)Open QuestionThe source that documents Hechtel's 1799 death and the game's publication gives no birth year, and no other catalogued source supplies one.What would resolve this A Nuremberg civic or guild record identifying Hechtel's baptism or birth, of the kind that has dated other Nuremberg engravers and publishers of the period.OpenGerman book and print historyRonald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett, A Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult TarotCross-Tradition ConnectionsQuestion OnJohann Kaspar Hechtel, Historical Figures Well-attested SourcesA Wicked Pack of Cards: The Origins of the Occult Tarottier 1Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis and Michael Dummett, St Martin's Press, 1996View the SourceDivinity Atlas Open Questions Register, First Editiontier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year