Friedrich Otto Aristides von Weech was born in Munich.
After this the young doctor joined Karl von Hegel's, team working on the (ultimately) 27 volume compilation, "The Chronicles of the German cities" ("Die Chroniken der deutschen Städte"), under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Bavarian Academy ("Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften") [REF].