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 resides in Southern Germany and is a Professor Emeritus of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich.
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