Petrus Ramus (1515 - August 26, 1572) was an influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer. He gained admission at age twelve, to the Coll癡ge de Navarre, working as a servant. A reaction against scholasticism was in full tide, at a transitional time for Aristotelianism. A central issue to his anti-Aristotelianism arose out of a concern for pedagogy. He sought to infuse order and simplicity into philosophical and scholastic education by reinvigorating a sense of dialectic as the overriding logical and methodological basis for the various disciplines. The logic of Ramus enjoyed a great celebrity for a time, and there existed a school of Ramists. There is no ground for his claim to supersede Aristotle by an independent system of logic. A Protestant convert, he was killed during the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre was a targeted group of assassinations, followed by a wave of Roman Catholic mob violence, both directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants), during the French Wars of Religion.