Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the early morning of September 7, 2024, Klaus Kreiser passed away in Berlin, quite unexpectedly and much too early for his family and friends, his colleagues and students.A scholar who was researching and writing literally until his last day, he reached the age of 79.Klaus Kreiser was a historian of Ottoman and modern Turkish history.The scope of his academic interest, however, transcended and widened the Die Welt des Islams 65 (2025) 373-379 boundaries of this discipline.Quite typically for German professors of his generation in Turkish studies, his scholarship was grounded in an academic formation of something that in German occasionally is still called "Turkologie" but no longer practised: the comprehensive occupation with everything Turkish, embedded in philological erudition and with a deep understanding of Islamic culture.Klaus Kreiser's (or, as he liked to sign his name, KK's) intellectual interests were much broader; he was a man of many languages, well-read especially in French, Italian, and German literature, and interested in music and the arts.This kind of Bildungsbürger stature was no matter of course.He was born March 6, 1945, in the last days of the Second World War in the Upper Bavarian district centre of Rosenheim.Together with his sister Claudia he was raised by his single mother, an office worker and avid reader.She divorced his absentee father in 1951.Her family came from rural Franconia and was therefore Protestant.In some contrast, Rosenheim was a town of then about 30,000 predominantly catholic inhabitants; a quarter of the population consisted of German refugees from Bohemia and Silesia.The place offered some smallscale urbanity, thanks also to the absence of nearby cities.In primary school, Klaus Kreiser had the good fortune to be a pupil in the class of Otfried Preußler , later a famous author of children's books.Hans Hömberg (1903-82), a distant uncle, was a productive novelist, playwright, and journalist based in Austria.Counting the manuscript lines of Hömberg's Sieben lustige Freunde ("Seven Merry Friends") was possibly the first time that the then fourteenyear-old Klaus Kreiser participated in a publication.Soon after, he found a kind of mentor in the writer, impresario, and cultural manager Eugen Weigl who also introduced him to journalism: KK contributed to the local Oberbayerisches Volksblatt.When he was about fourteen years old, he began to travel; alone and with friends, by bicycle or as hitchhiker.He repeatedly visited Austria and France.In 1964, a first journey to Turkey followed; two years later another tour took him to Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran.By this time, he was already studying at university.Travelling continued to be important, though: he earned money as a tour guide, especially for Studiosus, an agency specialising in educational journeys for affluent middle-class Germans.The relation between historical change and the space in which it happens remained a lifelong fascination to him.Klaus Kreiser studied in Munich and Cologne.He completed his doctoral thesis in 1973.His dissertation advisor was Hans-Joachim Kißling (1912-85), a scholar whose work was characterised by its broad scope and conservativism.Kißling studied Ottoman Europe and Sufi fraternities and had also published on Evliyā Çelebi's Seyāḥatnāme.Given KK's interest in the geographical settings
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.032 | 0.018 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".