Joseph Planta (librarian)

For his son, the diplomat and politician, see Joseph Planta (politician).

Joseph Planta FRS (21 February 1744 – 3 December 1827), aka Joseph von Planta,[1] the Principal Librarian (i.e. Director) of the British Museum for the first quarter of the nineteenth century.[2]

  1. ^ Joseph von Planta — SUSCH (2073), Scartezzini — English.
  2. ^ Robert Cowtan, Memories of the British Museum. R. Bentley and Son, 1872. ISBN 978-1-4097-6882-1. Page 232.