Fabrizio pregadio biography of albert

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).

Fabrizio pregadio biography of albert

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