The Nobel family ( , ) is a prominent

Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically: * Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland ** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...

and

Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...

family closely related to the history both of

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...

and of

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia, Northern Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, largest country in the ...

in the 19th and 20th centuries. Its legacy includes its outstanding contributions to philanthropy and to the development of the

armament A weapon, arm or armament is any implement or device that can be used to deter, threaten, inflict physical damage, harm, or kill. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, s ...

industry and of the

oil industry The petroleum industry, also known as the oil industry or the oil patch, includes the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transportation (often by oil tankers and pipelines), and marketing of petroleum products. The larges ...

. Some of its foremost members are

Immanuel Nobel Immanuel Nobel the Younger ( , ; 24 March 1801 – 3 September 1872) was a Swedish engineer, architect, inventor and industrialist. He was the inventor of the rotary lathe used in plywood manufacturing. He was a member of the Nobel family and ...

, the younger, engineer developer of underwater

naval mines A naval mine is a self-contained explosive device placed in water to damage or destroy surface ships or submarines. Unlike depth charges, mines are deposited and left to wait until they are triggered by the approach of, or contact with, any v ...

and inventor of the rotary lathe used to produce plywood,

Ludvig Nobel Ludvig Immanuel Nobel ( ; russian: Лю́двиг Эммануи́лович Нобе́ль, Ljúdvig Emmanuílovich Nobél’; sv, Ludvig Emmanuel Nobel ; 27 July 1831 – 12 April 1888) was a Swedish-Russian engineer, a noted businessman and a ...

, the founder of Branobel and one of the richest and most important men in Russia at his time, and

Alfred Nobel Alfred Bernhard Nobel ( , ; 21 October 1833 – 10 December 1896) was a Swedes, Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and Philanthropy, philanthropist. He is best known for having bequeathed his fortune to establish the Nobel ...

, the inventor of

dynamite Dynamite is an explosive made of nitroglycerin, sorbents (such as powdered shells or clay), and Stabilizer (chemistry), stabilizers. It was invented by the Swedish people, Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel in Geesthacht, Northern Germa ...

who left the major part of his estate to the creation of the

Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...

Origins

The Nobel family originated from the village of Östra Nöbbelöv in

Scania Scania, also known by its native name of Skåne (, ), is the southernmost of the historical provinces of Sweden, provinces (''landskap'') of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conte ...

, hence the name. The first member was Petrus Olai Nobelius (1655–1707) who married Wendela Rudbeck (1668–1710), daughter of the famous Swedish scientist

Olaus Rudbeck Olaus Rudbeck (also known as Olof Rudbeck the Elder, to distinguish him from his son, and occasionally with the surname Latinized as ''Olaus Rudbeckius'') (13 September 1630 – 12 December 1702) was a Swedish scientist and writer, professor o ...

the Elder, also known as Olof Rudbeck.

Achievements

Members of the Nobel family are known not only for their interest in art but also for their inventive ability, which is sometimes referred to as a ''Rudbeckian'' trait, inherited from their ancestor

, the elder. Immanuel Nobel pioneered the development of underwater mines, designed some of the first

steam engine A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a cylinder. This pushing force can be trans ...

s to power Russian ships, installed the first central heating systems in Russian homes and was the first to develop modern plywood (cut with a rotary lathe). One of his sons, Ludvig Nobel, was the founder of The Machine-Building Factory Ludvig Nobel, a great armaments concern and the inventor of the Nobel wheel. Ludvig was also the founder of Branobel, the foremost Russian oil industry of its time, and launched the world's first diesel-driven tugs and tankers, besides building the first European

pipeline Pipeline may refer to: Electronics, computers and computing * Pipeline (computing), a chain of data-processing stages or a CPU optimization found on ** Instruction pipelining, a technique for implementing instruction-level parallelism within a s ...

, who died childless, was the inventor of

and the founder of the

Nobel Prizes The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfre ...

, to the creation of which he left the bulk of his estate. The Nobel family have created several societies, including the Nobel Family Society, a private society of which only the descendants of Immanuel Nobel, the younger, are eligible as members, the

Nobel Foundation The Nobel Foundation ( sv, Nobelstiftelsen) is a private institution founded on 29 June 1900 to manage the finances and administration of the Nobel Prizes. The foundation is based on the last will of Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite. It ...

, a private society administering the prizes of Alfred Nobel, and the

Nobel Charitable Trust The Nobel Sustainability Trust (NST) is a charity set up by some members of the Swedish Nobel family, i.e. descendants of Ludvig Nobel. Its founders are Michael Nobel, Gustaf Nobel Gustaf Nobel ( , ; born 1950 in Stockholm) is a Swedish business ...

. Notably, the Director of the Nobel Foundation, Michael Sohlman, and the elected head of the Nobel family disapproves of the institution of the Nobel Charitable Trust (NCT) The Nobel family is also represented in the Nobel Prizes Award Ceremony, held in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

every year. In 2007, the Nobel family archives kept in the Archives of

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

were inscribed in

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

Memory of the World Register Memory is the faculty of the mind by which data or information is encoded, stored, and retrieved when needed. It is the retention of information over time for the purpose of influencing future action. If past events could not be remembered ...

Members

*Olof Nobelius (1706–1760), artist, (m.1750) Ana Christina Wallin (1718–1787) **Immanuel Nobel, the Elder (1757–1839), physician, (m.1st.) Anna Kristina Rosell (1760–1795), (m.2nd.) Brita Catharina Ahlberg(1770–1823) ***

, the Younger (1801–1872), (m.1827) Andriette Ahlsell (1803–1889)Åsbrink, Brita (2001): Ludvig Nobel: "Petroleum har en lysande framtid!" Wahlström & Widstrand, p. 19.

Descendants of Immanuel, the younger, and Andriette Nobel

Robert Nobel Robert Hjalmar Nobel ( , ; 4 August 1829 – 7 August 1896) was a Swedish businessman, industrialist and investor. He was the founder of Branobel, and a pioneer in the Russian oil industry. Biography Robert Nobel was born in Maria Magdalena p ...

(1829–1896), pioneer of the Russian oil industry, m.1860 Pauline Lenngrén (1840–1918) *

(1831–1888), founder of Branobel and its first president, m.1st 1858 Mina Ahlsell (1832–1869), m. 2nd 1871 Edla Constantia Collin (1848–1921) *

(1833–1896), the inventor of dynamite, instituted the Nobel Prizes *

Emil Oskar Nobel Emil Oskar Nobel ( , ; a.k.a. Oscar; 29 October 1843 – 3 September 1864) was a member of the Nobel family. Biography Emil Nobel was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He was the youngest son of Immanuel Nobel (1801–1872) and Karolina Andr ...

(1843–1864)

Descendants of Robert and Pauline Nobel

*Hjalmar Immanuel Nobel (1863–1956), m.1923 Countess Anna Sofia Posse (1895–1975) *Ingeborg Sofia Nobel (1865–1939), m.1894 Count Carl von Frischen Ridderstolpe (1864–1905) *Ludvig Emanuel Nobel (1868–1946), m.1895 Valborg Wettergrund (1869–1940) *Tyra Elisabeth Nobel (1873–1897)

Descendants of Ludvig and Mina Nobel

Emanuel Nobel Emanuel Ludvig Nobel ( , ; Saint Petersburg, 1859 – Stockholm, 31 May 1932) was a Swedish oil baron, the eldest son of Ludvig Nobel and his first wife, Mina Ahlsell, grandson of Immanuel Nobel and nephew of Alfred Nobel. Businessman After h ...

(1859–1932), Branobel's second president *Carl Nobel (1862–1893), m. Mary Landzert (1865–1928) **Andriette Nobel-Tydén (1890–1976), m. 1912 Eberhard Tydén (1885–1968) ***Birgit Maria Andriette Tydén (1913–2002) ***Carl Eberhard Tydén (1916–2012) ***Karl Göran Eugene Tydén (1918–1996) **Mimmi Nobel-Högman (1891–1938), m. 1st 1914 Gustav Högman (1888–1947) ***Ulla Mary Elisabeth (b. 1916), m. 1939 Baron Sigvard Gustaf Beck-Friis (b. 1913) ****Baroness Christina Mary Cecilia (b. 1943), m. 1968 (div. 1981) Jean-Claude Andre (b. 1945) *****Alexandra Andre (b. 1970) ****Baron Joachim Beck-Friis (b. 1946) ****Baroness Elisabeth Ulla Alice (b. 1950), m. 1986 Baron Erik Ottoson Thott (b. 1954) ***Karl Gösta Bertie Högman (1918–1994), m. 1953 Chris Lundquist (1930–2011) ****Karl Gösta Jack Högman (b. 1954), m. 1984 Susanne Rosén (b. 1957) *****Mimmi Birgitta Ellinor Högman-Nobel (b. 1991) ****Anna Mary Gill Högman-Granath (b. 1962), m. 1990 Ingemar Granath ***Tom Åke Emanuel Högman (1922–1991) *Anna Nobel Nobel-Sjögren (1866–1935)

Descendants of Ludvig and Edla Nobel

*Esther Wilhelmina (Mina) Nobel-Olsen (1873–1929) **Alf Igor Nobel (1898–1968, ''

né A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth reg ...

'' Olsen), m. 1921 Esther Mathilda Johnsen (1898–1978) ***Hans Emanuel Nobel (b. 1922) ***Edla (Lisle) Nobel-

Nordenfelt The Nordenfelt gun was a multiple-barrel organ gun that had a row of up to twelve barrels. It was fired by pulling a lever back and forth and ammunition was gravity fed through chutes for each barrel. It was produced in a number of different ...

(b. 1923) *** Claes Nobel (1930–2021) **Edla Nobel (1899–1996, ''

née A birth name is the name of a person given upon birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name, or the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a birth certificate or birth re ...

'' Olsen), m. 1st 1920 Roger Daudy (1889–1933), m. 2nd 1934 Count Médéric Claret de Fleurieu (1893–1968) ***Irline Aglaé Marie Nadine Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1935), m. 1956 Count Henri Lombard de Buffières de Rambuteau (1925–1991) ****Jean-Marie de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1957) ****Marie Edla de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1958) ****Claude de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1959), m. 1991 Diane Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1961) *****Astrid de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1991) *****Mathilde de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1993) *****Cécile de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1995) ****Philibert de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1966) ****Charles de Buffières de Rambuteau (b. 1968) ***Count Patrick Camille Alfred Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1938), m. 1967 Anne Viguier (b. 1941) ****Sylvie Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1968) ****Médéric Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1969) ****Sabine Claret de Fleurieu (b. 1971) **Leif Jurij Nobel (1901–1938, ''

'' Olsen) (m.1930), m. Anna Elisabeth Mellén (1905–2003) ***

Peter Nobel Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a su ...

(b. 1931) ***Eva Nobel (b. 1935) *Ludvig Alfred (Lullu) Nobel (1874–1935), m. 1901 Mary (Minnie) Johnson (1876–1953) **Mary Lorna Nobel (1902–1911) **Ludvig Manuel Nobel (1904–1911) **Emanuel Percy Ludvig Alexis Nobel (1913–1987) ***Philip Nobel (1970-2016) (m.2007) Chantal Cordilhac (b. 1962) ****Chloé Nobel (b. 2007) *Ingrid Hildegard Nobel-Ahlqvist (1879–1929) *

Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff Marta Helena Nobel-Oleinikoff (Russian: Марта Людвиговна Нобель-Олейникова), née Marta Helena Nobel (9 October 1881, Saint Petersburg – 1973, Stockholm), was a Russian-Swedish physician and philanthropist and memb ...

(1881–1973), m. 1905 Georgij Pavlovitj Oleinikoff (1864–1937) **Nils Nobel-Oleinikoff (1905–1990, ''né'' Oleinikoff), last President of Branobel, m. 1st 1933 Herta Frieda ter Meer (1911–1939), m. 2nd 1943 Dora Ahlqvist (1906–1985) ***Peter Nobel-Oleinikoff (b. 1937), m. 1998 Anna von Holstein (b. 1943) ***Nils Nobel-Oleinikoff (b. 1944), m. 1968 Monique de Lamare-Singery (1947–1995) ****Christianne Nobel-Oleinikoff (b. 1970), m. 2006 Bruno Ferraz-Coutinho (b. 1972) **Sven Nobel-Oleinikoff (''né'' Oleinikoff) ***

Michael Nobel Michael Nobel ( , ; born 1940) is a Swedish entrepreneur of Russian origin. He is a member of the Nobel family, a descendant of Ludvig Nobel, a former chairman of the Nobel Family Society (1995–2006), a co-founder and chairman of the Nobel ...

(-Oleinikoff) *Rolf Nobel (1882–1947) *Emil Waldemar Ludvig Nobel (1885–1951) *Gustaf Oscar Ludvig (Gösta) Nobel (1886–1951)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nobel Family Business families of Sweden Swedish expatriates in Russia