Fabrizio pregadio biography of nancy

Fabrizio Pregadio (born January 14, 1957) is a Sinologist and a translator of Chinese language texts into English related to Taoism and Neidan (Internal Alchemy). He is currently affiliated with the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg),^[1] and is working on a project on the Taoist Master Liu Yiming (1734-1821) with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG).^[2]

Earlier, Pregadio taught at the University of Venice (1996–97), Technische Universität Berlin (1998-2001), Stanford University (2001–08), McGill University in Montreal (2009–10), and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (2014-18).

His research interests are the Taoist views of the human being; the self-cultivation traditions of Taoism; their foundations in early Taoist works; and their relation to Chinese traditional sciences, including cosmology, alchemy, and medicine.

Pregadio is the author of Great Clarity: Daois