Ramus, Peter

or Pierre de la Ramée , a French philosopher and humanist, son of poor parents; became a servant in the College of Navarre; devoted his leisure to study, and became a great scholar; attacked scholasticism in a work against Aristotle as the main pillar of the system, and was interdicted from teaching philosophy, but the judgment was reversed by Henry II., and he was made a royal profe or; he turned Protestant in the end, and was ma acred on the eve of St. Bartholomew (1515-1572).