The 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 Tarot