2 Quotes & Sayings By Albert Nobel
Albert Nobel was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 13, 1833. He was the eldest of six children born to Johan Alfred Nobel and Charlotta Henrietta Zakrisson. Albert Nobel was educated at home by private tutors, and he graduated from the University of Uppsala in 1854. He studied medicine at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, but left to pursue other interests
While traveling around Europe, Nobel met his future wife, Bertha Amalia German (1840-1917). They were married in Malmö, Sweden, on June 29, 1857. Albert Nobel continued to travel throughout Europe for the next two years, finally settling in Paris to study law.
He worked as an assistant to several professors at the University of Paris before returning to his native Sweden in 1860. That year he opened an import-export business that became very successful.