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Humanism marked a profound turning point in the history of education in Europe and Germany. In place of a more general Christian and national world of ideas, it initially introduced ancient concepts, forms and figures that were initially only understandable to scholars and only slowly became more common and never completely familiar to wider sections of society. This ultimately led to a fragmentation of unity in a completely different way than had already been the case in the Middle Ages due to the segregation of the knighthood and the Latin of clerical education, and as is always necessary and real in the type of intellectual stages. At the end of the 16th century, the dangerous possibility inherent in humanism became a reality for a generation in Germany: the educational separation of the leading class from the people as a whole. When considering social conditions, it was already necessary to point out the effect of this circle and its significance for courtly humanism during and after Opib. His educational idea had an impact well into the century and determined not only the views of scholars. Its impact can be felt even in Grimmelshausen’s narrative art and even more deeply socially.