Manfred Porkert
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Manfred Porkert is a significant scholar of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
His extensive knowledge of many languages (especially Chinese) enabled him to develop a deep and comprehensive nomenclature of TCM-terms, based on ancient Greek and Latin words, for westerners to gain insight into TCM and its underlying philosophy. He is well-known for his 1974 book The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine: Systems of Correspondence, from the MIT Press (introduction by Nathan Sivin), where his translations from Chinese of traditional technical terms are explained.
He resides in Southern Germany and is a Professor Emeritus of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
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