Franziska Möllinger

Louise Franziska Möllinger (1817–1880)[1] was a pioneering German-born Swiss photographer who worked with daguerreotypes in the early 1840s.

[4][6] It is not very clear why Möllinger became interested in daguerreotypes but it may well have been because her brother Otto was also the editor of the local Solothurn news sheet which, on 4 April 1839, published a report on Daguerre's work.

[7] It has been suggested that, like her Swiss male counterpart Johann Baptist Isenring, she travelled with a caravan where she was able to process her dagerrotypes in a darkroom.

28 on 8 April 1843 announcing that Franziska Möllinger was also available for taking photographs of individual and family portraits.

After a prolonged illness, possibly as a result of mercury poisoning from her photographic processing, Franziska Möllinger died of pulmonary complications in Zürich on 26 February 1880.