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Estonian linguist and polyglot
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Pent Nurmekund
Nurmekund in May 1965 (aged 58)
BornArthur Roosmann
(1906-12-16)16 December 1906
Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia
Died28 December 1996(1996-12-28) (aged 90)
Tartu, Estonia
NationalityEstonian
SpouseSalme Nigol
Academic work
DisciplineLinguist
InstitutionsUniversity of Tartu

Pent Nurmekund (16 December 1906 – 28 December 1996) was an Estonian linguist and polyglot. He could read over eighty languages.

Life

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

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

In 1935, he became a founding member of the Estonian Oriental Society.

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

In 1991, he received the Wiedemann Language Award.

References

  1. ^ Rein, Kaarina (2005). "Modern Greek at the University of Tartu". In Volt, Ivo; Päll, Janika (eds.). Byzantino-Nordica 2004. Tartu: Tartu University Press. pp. 163–184. ISBN 9949112664.
  2. Gethin, Amorey; Gunnemark, Erik V. (1996). The Art and Science of Learning Languages. Oxford: Intellect Books. p. 318. ISBN 1-871516-48-X.
  3. ^ Kändler, Tiit (2002). A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. pp. 122–123. ISBN 9985-70-103-8.
  4. "Pent Nurmekund". Festivitas Artium. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007.


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