biography
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Ramus, Petrus
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Latin name of Pierre de la Ramée
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pronunciation:
[ramü]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1515–72)
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| biography:
| Humanist and philosopher, born in Cuts, N France. He studied in Paris, became a lecturer on Classical authors, and undertook to reform the science of logic. His attempts excited much hostility among the Aristotelians, and his Dialectic (1543) which presented a controversial new system of logic was at first suppressed, but in 1551 he became professor of philosophy at the Collège de France. He later became a Protestant (c.1561) which made him politically vulnerable, and he fled from Paris to travel in Germany and Switzerland (1568–70). Returning to France in 1571, he was killed in the massacre of St Bartholomew. |
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