Joseph Planta (librarian)

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

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

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