Hans Nobel (1657 – 26 August 1732) was a Danish landowner and civil servant.

Biography

Nobel was born in the village of

Kristianopel Kristianopel () is a village in Karlskrona Municipality in the southeastern Swedish region of Blekinge. In 2015 it had a population of 88. History of the town Flint finds have been made at the site, which indicates that there have been Stone Age ...

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where his father was a merchant. He was the son of Hans Mortensen Nobel (dead 1698) and Sophie Casparsdatter Eggers (dead 1693). He was an uncle of jurist and military officer Peter Schnitler (1690–1751). The year after he was born, southern Sweden including Blekinge became Swedish territory under the terms of the

Treaty of Roskilde The Treaty of Roskilde (concluded on 26 February ( OS), or 8 March 1658) ( NS) during the Second Northern War between Frederick III of Denmark–Norway and Karl X Gustav of Sweden in the Danish city of Roskilde. After a devastating defeat, ...

(1658). Nobel attended school in

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and was enrolled at the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public university, public research university in Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in ...

in 1677. For a period he was a customs contractor of North

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. Nobel served as mining counselor at Nordafjelsk bergamt in Northern Norway from 1702. From 1704 to 1719 he served as Governor of Romsdals Amt (now Møre og Romsdal county). He lived in

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

and was the owner of the ''Moldegård'' manor. From 1713 to 1716, he was a member of the Palace Act Commission (''Slottsloven'') at

Akershus Akershus () is a traditional region and current electoral district in Norway, with Oslo as its main city and traditional capital. It is named after the Akershus Fortress in Oslo. From the middle ages to 1919, Akershus was a fief and main county ...

. Between 1717 and 1719, he lived in Brevik. In 1719, Nobel moved to Denmark where he settled as a landowner at Sandholt and Sollerup on

Funen Funen ( da, Fyn, ), with an area of , is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy. It is the 165th-largest island in the world. It is located in the central part of the country and has a population of 469,947 as of ...

. During the 1720s, he oversaw the

Norwegian church sale The Norwegian church sale ( no, kirkesalget) was a comprehensive and systematic sale of most of the church properties in Norway during the 1720s. The purpose of this sale was the intention of improving the poor public finances in the Kingdom of Denm ...

. He lived there until his death in 1732. His son, Hans Hanssen Nobel (1684–1752), was the Governor of Stavanger Amt.

References

1657 births 1732 deaths People from Karlskrona University of Copenhagen alumni 17th-century Danish landowners 18th-century Danish landowners Danish civil servants {{Denmark-bio-stub