Talk:Karlskoga Municipality
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[edit] Alfred Nobel in Karlskoga
In the article it is written that "Alfred Nobel was born in Karlskoga in 1833". This is simply false. The name Nobel comes from a village near the Swedish town Kristianstad named Nöbbelöv which Nobel´s father latinized to Nobel, as he moved to Stockholm before Alfred was born, to become an inventor. He was born in Stockholm but was for a great part of his childhood raised in Sankt Petersburg. He didn´t visit Karlskoga until he was a man in his middle ages.
The only connection between Karlskoga and Alfred Nobel was that Nobel decided to build a armaments factory and established a dynamite factory there due to Karlskoga´s location in middle of Sweden, far away from potential dangers. He didn´t live there for any longer periods nor had any other connenctions to the place whatsoever.
