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'''Iosephus Planta''' (''Joseph von Planta, Joseph de Planta''; natus
Joseph Planta was first educated by his father and then studied at the universities of Utrecht and ‘for a short time’ Göttingen in the 1760s before travelling in France and Italy. After being employed as a secretary to the British minister at Brussels, he returned to England when his father died to care for his mother and family. He succeeded his father as assistant librarian of the department of printed books in the British Museum from 1773, and in 1776 was promoted to under-librarian to take charge of the department of manuscripts. He was elected FRS in February 1774, and in June was appointed to conduct the foreign correspondence of the society. In 1776 he became one of its secretaries.
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Planta's publications reflected his interest in his native country. The tongue spoken by some of the inhabitants of the Grisons was the subject of his An Account of the Romansh Language (1776), which was originally printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (66, 1776, 129–59). His History of the Helvetic Confederacy (1800) was inspired by the Napoleonic invasion of Switzerland. After the defeat of Napoleon he wrote a short sequel—A View of the Restoration of the Helvetic Confederacy (1821).
Planta was an urbane man who administered the museum with great ability. His good knowledge of German, French, and Italian enabled him to converse easily with foreign visitors. Having begun life as a member of the Swiss Reformed church, he became a devoted adherent of the Church of England, and a regular attender at St George's, Bloomsbury, where he was buried on 9 December 1827, having died at the museum on 3 December. A memorial tablet to him was erected in St George's. -->
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