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THE NOBEL FAMILY - BENGT JANGFELDT GEBUNDEN

This absorbing collective biography of the genius Nobel family reveals how the Nobels' business
and personal lives were fundamentally intertwined with the histories of Sweden and Russia  as
well as the economic and entrepreneurial development of Europe in the long 19th century. The
name Nobel is mainly associated with the Nobel prize. However  Alfred Nobel was only one of a
family of conspicuously gifted individuals. The Nobels  who moved from Sweden to Russia in the
1830s  ran one of Russia's biggest machine factories and founded the Russian oil industry.Using
thousands of Nobel family letters and other documents shared here for the first time  Bengt
Jangfeldt provides a fascinating and authoritative multi-generational chronicle charting the
family exploits. The author describes how the father  Immanuel Nobel  a polymath architect 
inventor  and engineer set the family on a path to financial success amidst a backdrop of
imperial Russian industrial growth. He tells the story of how Immanuel's sons  Robert and
Ludvig  and his grandson  Emanuel  developed the family business into a powerful industrial
empire with a progressive agenda in the fields of worker's welfare  profit-sharing and charity.
When the Revolution struck in 1917  the family's industrial empire as well as their huge
personal wealth were swept away in one go. As a result they had to flee the country where they
had been active for 80 years and return to Sweden.    During a time of immense change in Russia
and right across Europe  the story of the Nobels stands out as one of both brilliance and
resilience  with family firmly at its heart.

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