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Pent Nurmekund
Nurmekund in May 1965 (aged 58) [1]
Born	Arthur Roosmann (1906-12-16)16 December 1906 Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia
Died	28 December 1996(1996-12-28) (aged 90) Tartu, Estonia
Nationality	Estonian
Spouse	Salme Nigol
Academic work
Discipline	Linguist
Institutions	University of Tartu

Pent Nurmekund (16 December 1906 – 28 December 1996) was an Estonian linguist and polyglot. He could read over eighty languages. ^{[2] [3]}

Life

Nurmekund came from a poor peasant family and first attended school at the age of twelve. ^[1]

From 1930 to 1935, he studied Romance and Germanic philology at Tartu University, and graduated with a Magister Philosophiae. ^[3]

In 1935, he became a founding member of the Estonian Oriental Society. ^[4]

From 1955 to 1986, he was a lecturer at Tartu University, and in the 1950s founded the Oriental department there. ^[3]

In 1991, he received the Wiedemann Language Award. ^[3]

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