| Pent Nurmekund | |
| Birth Name: | Arthur Roosmann |
| Birth Date: | 1906 12, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Kilingi-Nõmme, Estonia |
| Death Place: | Tartu, Estonia |
| Nationality: | Estonian |
| Spouse: | Salme Nigol |
| Discipline: | Linguist |
| Workplaces: | University of Tartu |
Pent Nurmekund (16 December 190628 December 1996) was an Estonian linguist and polyglot. He could read over eighty languages.[1] [2]
Nurmekund came from a poor peasant family and first attended school at the age of twelve.[3]
From 1930 to 1935, he studied Romance and Germanic philology at Tartu University, and graduated with a Magister Philosophiae.[2]
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.[2]
In 1991, he received the Wiedemann Language Award.[2]
et:Tiit Kändler
. A Hundred Great Estonians of the 20th Century. 2002. Estonian Encyclopaedia Publishers. 9985-70-103-8. 122–123.