Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
Born in Stockholm in 1833 of Swedish parents, Alfred Nobel moved with his family
to St. Petersburg, then the capital of Russia, at the age of nine. There his
energetic and inventive father soon acquired a strong and respected position as
an inventor and industrialist. Nobel subsequently lived in several countries and
ultimately came to regard himself as a citizen of the world. Even so, he never
gave up his Swedish citizenship.
By virtue of the education he received in many countries, Nobel read, spoke and
wrote fluently in five European languages: Swedish, Russian, English, French and
German. His numerous handwritten letters demonstrate his remarkable proficiency
in all of them. He perfected his French when sent to Paris by his father in his
late teens to study chemistry. His letters in French are particularly elegant.
Those in English sometimes bear traces of the early nineteenth-century style
generally associated with Byron and Shelley (his two favourite poets) and......
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