Bureaucratic nobility is a type of nobility resulting not from lineage, but from the service in office of a holder of a particular position. The ascent of a commoner (Citizen; Bourgeoisie) in the military or administrative hierarchy would thus be confirmed or sanctioned by elevation to the nobility, such an ennoblement on the basis of individual service generally taking effect as a special legal act by the monarch. Insofar as civic elites with academic training were called upon everywhere in the course of the consolidation of the early modern princely state (Absolutism), their memb…