ABSTRACT
After an abortive attempt in 1526 to stage another uprising in the Tyrol, Gaismaier fled to northern Italy, where he was assassinated in 1532. Drawn into the maelstrom of peasant unrest against the bishop of Brixen in 1525, Gaismaier quickly assumed the leadership role in the uprising. While virtually nothing is known about Gaismaier's youth, his position as secretary to the governor of South Tyrol allows the conjecture of legal training at a university. Gardiner studied and taught at Cambridge University, rising to become master of Trinity Hall. John Calvin established the Genevan academy in 1559 with its schola privata and its schola publico, the former a preparatory school, the latter a university in which, however, only theology was taught for some time. After Calvin's death in 1564 and the succession of Beza, Geneva suffered numerous setbacks: the decline of its ally Bern, financial difficulties, and determined efforts of the dukes of Savoy to subdue the city.
