Definition of "Kulturträger"

She knew she was accepted in the world of culture and of intellect. She was a Kulturträger, a medium for the culture of ideas.

1920, D.H. Lawrence, chapter 1, in Women in Love

All this was demoralising enough for an intelligentsia that, whatever its internal disputes, had always taken its role as Kulturträger for granted.

2007, Perry Anderson, “Russia's Managed Democracy”, in London Review of Books, 29:2, page 8