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Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi

Born 1876/77 (AH 1293) · Kütahya · Dated entries 1882 to 1903 (AH 1300 to 1320)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD., No:115, s.341

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 6 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

1KütahyaBoyabatSkopje (Üsküp)Gusinje (Gusinye)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Kütahya

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

  1. 1

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Kütahya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Boyabat

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 7

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 7

  3. 3

    1883/84 (AH 1301) · 14 recorded years

    Boyabat

    AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 8

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Boyabat / Skopje (Üsküp)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Boyabat

      Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Skopje (Üsküp)

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi posta kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 22

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 4 recorded years

    Skopje (Üsküp)

    AH entries: 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi posta kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Skopje (Üsküp) / Gusinje (Gusinye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Skopje (Üsküp)

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gusinje (Gusinye)

      Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi müdürü

      600 kuruşCalculated age 27

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1882 to 1898 (AH 1300 to 1315)
  2. 1897 to 1903 (AH 1315 to 1320)
  3. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1882 to 1898 (AH 1300 to 1315)
  2. 1899 to 1903 (AH 1317 to 1320)
  3. 1897 to 1900 (AH 1315 to 1317)
  4. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüştiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterleri'nde Osmanlı Dönemi Kütahyalı memurlar

    MUSTAFA KOCAKAYA · 2018 · Pages 107, 108

    BOA.DH.SAİD., No:115, s.341; 119 BOA.DH.SAİD., No:115, s.341.; BOA.DH.SAİD., No:115, s.341

Read the original source accounts · 25 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 21 dated years

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