Wilhelm J. Burger

Around the 1870s, he traveled to Thailand and Japan, as well as the Arctic, where he took photographs that have become historical documents and are kept in international archives.

A fairly recent discovery has been made of photographs of Siam (Thailand) that were originally attributed to Wilhelm Burger (published in book form by Mr. Pipat Pongrapeeporn, 2001).

The complete set of photographs, now correctly attributed to Francis Chit, was returned to Thailand and is now illuminating a new generation of Thai and Western students, historians, and everyday people as to what Bangkok of the 1860s looked like.

However, the diary of his assistant Michael Moser, published in 2019, proves that some of the photos were taken together with Francis Chit (quote from May 16, 1969: "We were three photographers: namely a native Siamese who does beautiful things and is also on the river.

in 2011, T. Akiyoshi and P. Pantzer showed in an article published in the magazine "Photo Researcher Nr.