Grindelwald the Elitist

This is just a random post that arose in reading a book on historiography (for one of my upcoming PhD comp questions). Grindelwald's first name, Gellert, is probably from a German root (fitting for his last name being, according to the HP lexicon, taken from a town in Switzerland, and the resemblance of his reign, and even some of his buildings, to Germany and particularly Nazi Germany). According to Langenscheit the meaning of the German word "gelehrte" (I'm grateful here, I think, for Jim Dale's reading, who, probably counseled by JKR I'm sure, pronounces Gellert in the correct way for German, which would be almost, if not totally, identical to the pronunciation of gelherte) is a learned person, a scientist ... reminiscent of legends of Nazi experimentation (the Nazi connections have all been noted long before me so I can claim no interpretational originality). But I ran into the word in a passage on the development of literary forms in the Ancient Near East, where an author was positing that history writing arose as a "gelehrte Gattung" - a "learned form" - once nations hit a certain "height of culture." So, I think the word means not only our sense of knowing a lot, but indicates a certain social standing ... the type of learning that in some cultures only the rich or upper crust can afford. So, Grindelwald's first name is a sort of veiled code for his elitist character.