[2][3] 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.

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