The year after he was born, southern Sweden including Blekinge became Swedish territory under the terms of the Treaty of Roskilde (1658).
Nobel served as mining counselor at Nordafjelsk bergamt in Northern Norway from 1702.
In 1719, Nobel moved to Denmark where he settled as a landowner at Sandholt and Sollerup on Funen.
Hans Hansen Nobel was the owner of the property Gammel Strand 36 in Copenhagen.
He acquired the property through his marriage to the widow of Icelandic merchant Jørgen Jørgensen Klog.