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Pent Nurmekund

Estonian linguist and polyglot From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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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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