Hans Nobel
Hans Nobel was a Danish landowner and civil servant.Biography
Nobel was born in the village of Kristianopel at Karlskrona in Blekinge where his father was a merchant. He was the son of Hans Mortensen Nobel and Sophie Casparsdatter Eggers. He was an uncle of jurist and military officer Peter Schnitler.
The year after he was born, southern Sweden including Blekinge became Swedish territory under the terms of the at the Treaty of Roskilde.
Nobel attended school in Kristianstad and was enrolled at the University of Copenhagen in 1677.
For a period he was a customs contractor of North Jutland.
Nobel served as mining counselor at Nordafjelsk bergamt in Northern Norway from 1702.
From 1704 he served as county manager of Romsdals amt. He lived in Molde and was the owner of the Moldegård manor.
From 1713 to 1716, he was a member of the Palace Act Commission at Akershus. Between 1717–19, he lived in Brevik.
In 1719, Nobel moved to Denmark where he settled as a landowner at Sandholt and Sollerup on Funen.
He lived there until his death in 1732.
