Studied European ethnology and cultural and social anthropology at the University of Vienna; since 2018 employed at the Museum of Folk Life and Folk Art Vienna, incl. provenance research.
Robert Jonas was born in 1883 in Vienna, the son of Benjamin Jonas and his wife Flora, née Spitzer, from Ballasa-Gyarmat in northern Hungary. He completed his studies in 1904 at the Niedere und Höhere Fachschule at the k. k.