Pierre Ramus

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Pierre Ramus was a French humanist scholar and educator of the Renaissance, known for his influential reforms of logic and rhetoric that challenged traditional Aristotelian teachings.

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instanceOf French person
Renaissance humanist
educator
humanist scholar
logician
philosopher
rhetorician
alsoKnownAs Petrus Ramus NERFINISHED
birthName Pierre de la Ramée NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath religious violence
conflictWith French academic authorities defending Aristotle
the Sorbonne theologians
convertedTo Calvinism NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
dateOfBirth 1515-01-01
dateOfDeath 1572-08-26
educatedAt Collège de Navarre NERFINISHED
University of Paris NERFINISHED
employer Collège de France NERFINISHED
University of Paris NERFINISHED
era Renaissance
fieldOfWork logic
philosophy of education
rhetoric
influenced Francis Bacon NERFINISHED
Johann Sturm NERFINISHED
Philipp Melanchthon NERFINISHED
early modern educational reformers
influencedBy Erasmus of Rotterdam NERFINISHED
Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
knownFor Ramist logic NERFINISHED
Ramist rhetoric
binary method of logical division
simplification of Aristotelian logic
textbooks widely used in Protestant Europe
languageOfWorkOrName French
Latin
mannerOfDeath killed in the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
movement Renaissance humanism NERFINISHED
notableFor criticizing Aristotelian scholasticism
influencing Protestant educational thought
reforming the teaching of logic
reforming the teaching of rhetoric
notableWork Aristotelicae animadversiones NERFINISHED
Dialecticae libri duo NERFINISHED
Dialectique NERFINISHED
Scholae in liberales artes NERFINISHED
occupation professor
opposed Aristotelian scholastic philosophy
traditional university curriculum of the Sorbonne
placeOfBirth Cuts, Picardy, France NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Paris
surface form: Paris, France
religion Protestant Christianity
surface form: Protestantism
workLocation Paris

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