Erudition

Learning, often Gelehrheit, is the - now largely uncommon - Word from the 17th to the 19th century for

• Academic, university, scientific education of a person,
• For the scientific quality of a particular work,
• For the totality of all that are scientifically made ​​and the res publica literaria belong.

The most commonly used derived from the Latin synonym was " erudition ." The word " literature " put the accent more on the published science. "Learning " was the same great English word.

The word most in the 19th century, the general word formation, which is now the closer subdivisions is like " university education ", " education ".