Full Name: Meder, Joseph
Gender: male
Date Born: 1857
Date Died: 1934
Place Born: Zlovedice, Czech Republic
Place Died: Vienna, Vienna state, Austria
Home Country/ies: Germany
Overview
Director of the Albertina museum, 1905-23. He was born in Lobeditz, which is present day Zlovedice, Czech Republic. From 1884 onward he was active in the Vienna University library; in 1889 he was placed in charge of the Erzherzog Albrechts von Habsburg collection at the Albertina; between 1905-23 he was Director of the Albertina.
Sources
Metzler Kunsthistoriker Lexikon: zweihundert Porträts deutschsprachiger Autoren aus vier Jahrhunderten. Stuttgart: Metzler, 1999, pp. 260-2; http://www.museen.de/MusWiss_9132026.