Articles by: Ulrika Royen
Alfred Nobel’s Private Library, Björkborn
Humanities French Fiction Name First name Title, subtitle etc. Place of publ. Year Publisher About Edmond Le roman d’un brave homme. Paris 1883 Hachette Antic Joseph d’ Mes loisirs. Album des familles. Lectures amusantes et instructives. Ill. Paris 1884 La France illustrée Balzac Honoré de Eugénie Grandet. Oeuvres complètes. Scènes de la vie de…
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Alfred Nobel’s Private Library, Björkborn
All books in alphabetical order Humanities Fiction Sciences Miscellaneous The material was put together in spring, 1996 (Åke Erlandsson: Humanities) and in summer, 1997 (Niklas Mattsson: Sciences).
moreAlfred Nobel’s thoughts about war and peace
by Sven Tägil When Alfred Nobel’s will was made known after his death in San Remo on 10 December 1896, and when it was disclosed that he had established a special peace prize, this immediately created a great international sensation. The name Nobel was connected with explosives and with inventions useful to the art of…
moreAlfred Nobel in Sevran
by Birgitta Lemmel In 1873 Alfred Nobel settled in Paris and bought a magnificent house on He had a small laboratory in the yard, where he worked together with the young French chemist Georges D. Fehrenbach, who was to become Nobel’s faithful and trustworthy assistant behind the scenes during the nearly two decades that the…
moreAlfred Nobel’s house in Paris
by Birgitta Lemmel Between 1865 and 1873 Alfred Nobel’s home, laboratory, and the focal point of his business were in Hamburg. In 1873 he left Hamburg and moved to Paris. He had always had a great liking for Paris, which was the lively center of international business and had all cultural activities that he had…
moreAlfred Nobel in Krümmel
by Birgitta Lemmel In 1865, soon after production at his very first company – outside Stockholm – had got started, Alfred Nobel left Sweden for Hamburg with the aim of creating a company for the production of blasting oil (the brand name for ) in Europe. He had been encouraged to set up business in…
moreImmanuel Nobel
(1801-1872) Immanuel Nobel Father of Alfred Nobel. Self-taught inventor and building contractor in Stockholm. Immanuel Nobel grew up in a poor family who could not afford any formal education. His father taught him how to read and write. At the age of 14 he became a sailor. Exactly what Immanuel did after his return to…
moreAlfred Nobel in Scotland
by John E. Dolan Unlike most inventors Alfred Nobel combined technical creativity with commercial flair, both to a very high degree. A lack of capital proved no hindrance to Nobel and having borrowed it he had, within ten years, founded an international group of dynamite companies in Sweden, Finland, Germany and Norway before turning his…
moreHälsningsanförande – 2005
Swedish Tal av Dr Marcus Storch, Nobelstiftelsens styrelseordförande Eders Majestäter, Eders Kungliga Högheter, Ärade Nobelpristagare, Mina Damer och Herrar, På Nobelstiftelsens vägnar vill jag hälsa Er välkomna till årets prisutdelnings-ceremoni. Årets Nobelpristagare önskar vi särskilt välkomna till Nobelfestligheterna här i Stockholm och tidigare idag har Nobels Fredspris delats ut till och dess generaldirektör “for arbeidet…
moreOpening address – 2004
Speech by Professor , Chairman of the Board of Directors, The Nobel Foundation Your Majesties, Your Royal Highnesses, Honoured Nobel Laureates, Ladies and Gentlemen, On behalf of the Nobel Foundation, I welcome you to this year’s Prize Award Ceremony. We would especially like to welcome the Laureates of 2004 to the Nobel Festivities in Stockholm.…
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