Bengt Jangfeldt: The Nobel Family

Cover: 9781350348912 | The Nobel Family | Swedish Geniuses in Tsarist Russia | Jangfeldt

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Beschreibung

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 [...] 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.

Über den Autor

Bengt Jangfeldt is an author and historian. His biography Axel Munthe: The Road to San Michele (I.B.Tauris) was published in 2003 and won the Swedish Academy's prize for biography. A further large-scale biography, A Life at Stake, about the renowned Russian poet Mayakovsky, appeared in 2007 and was awarded the August Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.

Zusammenfassung

Reveals the family history of Alfred Nobel, the man who gave birth to the Nobel Prizes

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Part 1
1. Immanuel
2. Immanuel Nobel & Sons
3. Immanuel and Andriette
Part 2
4. Ludvig
5. Robert
6. Robert & Ludvig
7. The Nobel Brothers
8. The End of an Epoch
Part 3
9. The Third Generation
10. Emanuel
11. The Age of Greatness
12. Welfare and Charity
13. Political Unrest, Economic Growth and War
14. Anno 1917
Part 4
Postscript
Afterword
Family Tree
Picture Credits
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
ISBN-13:	9781350348912
ISBN-10:	1350348910
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	674967
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Hardback
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Jangfeldt, Bengt
Übersetzung:	Watson, Harry D.
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury Academic
Abbildungen:	88 bw illus and 10 colour illus
Maße:	244 x 168 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Bengt Jangfeldt
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.10.2023
Gewicht:	0,839 kg

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