Bildungsbürgertum (German: [ˈbɪldʊŋsˌbʏʁɡɐtuːm]) is a social class that emerged in mid-18th-century Germany, as the educated social stratum of the bourgeoisie, men and women who had received an education based upon the metaphysical values of Idealism and Classical studies of the Graeco–Roman culture of Antiquity. In sociological contrast to the Kleinbürgertum, the petite bourgeoisie of Germany, the Bildungsbürgertum were the intelligentsia and the upper economic-stratum of the German bourgeoisie. Term The term Bildungsbürgertum was coined in 1920s Germany, by the political right wing to communicate anti-bourgeois sentiment based upon the perceived incompatibility of temperament in a person who claims to being both a 'genuine' intellectual and a Bürger, a bourgeois. In the...