Individual dossier

Abdülkadir Hifzi Efendi

107_201; 399Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Abdülkadir Hifzi Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1302. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1317 (15 AH years after the recorded birth year), with “Dahiliye Kalemi” as first-job wording. The surviving career record covers 4 distinct AH years between 1318 and 1322, with gaps; it begins with Memurin Kitabeti in Istanbul (50 kuruş monthly). Posta Memuru appears later, in AH 1322 (380 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

4 recorded AH years · 4 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1302
  2. AH 1317Birth-year difference: 15 AH years
  3. AH 1318–1320Birth-year difference: 16–18 AH years
  4. AH 1321
    No annual career entries

    The source record is open here. A later change cannot be dated within this interval.

  5. AH 1322Birth-year difference: 20 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1318

Memurin Kitabeti · istanbul · 50 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1317 in istanbul (Dahiliye Kalemi). The first-salary field is 20 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1317 · 1899 labelDahiliye Kalemiistanbul
0190380GapAH 1318AH 1319AH 1320AH 1321AH 1322AH 1318 · 1900 label: 50 kuruş / month · Memurin Kitabeti · istanbulAH 1319 · 1901 label: 70 kuruş / month · Memurin Kitabeti · istanbulAH 1320 · 1902 label: 70 kuruş / month · Memurin Kitabeti · istanbulAH 1322 · 1904 label: 380 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · trablussam

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1317 · 1899 labelDahiliye Kalemiistanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1318 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadettrablussam: Locality linkage; agreedtrablussam

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes

Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.

  1. Salary 50 to 70 kuruş +20 (+40%)

  2. No annual entries for AH 1321. Changes span the gap.

    Title Memurin Kitabeti → Posta Memuru

    Locality istanbul → trablussam

    Salary 70 to 380 kuruş +310 (+442.86%)

A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Missing AH years: 1321. Older source entries do not fill the selected annual chronology.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Evkaf-i Humayun Hademesi
Recorded birth year
AH 1302
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1317 · 1899 label
Place
istanbul
First-salary field
20 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Original personnel workbook

Recorded first job

Department / title wording
Dahiliye Kalemi
Workbook first-job year
1317 (source year)
Associated salary field
20 kuruş

Source-labelled first-work department/title and associated salary. This amount is separate from the inherited first-salary field and from the first positive annual salary row; payment status and department date need source review.

PT-start alignment unavailable: department not exact pt label.

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Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Further biographical evidence

Source wording and status assertions

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Clerical and Administrative Staff
  • Postal Service
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes

These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.

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Download these additional source records (JSON)

Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
Recorded language term: TurkishRecorded source wordingKitabetsupplemental-workbook · BD
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
liyakatveEhliyetDerecesi (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels1supplemental-workbook · CT
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
madalya (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DQ
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
mecidinisani (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DO
source lines 4164, 4165
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
nisanialiosmani (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DP
source lines 4164, 4165
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
rutbe (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DN
source lines 4164, 4165
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Recorded source-year values: 1317, 1321
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingClerical and Administrative Staffseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
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Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingPostal Serviceseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 31909
Recorded source-year values: 1322
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMemurin Kitabetieda-memur · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingPosta Memurueda-memur · currentjob
source lines 32913
Recorded source-year values: 1322
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMemurin Kitabetieda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingPosta Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1322
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1318 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 32910
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 32911
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 32912
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 32913
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 32910
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 32911
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 32912
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 32913
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 32910
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 32911
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 32912
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 32913
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 32910
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 32911
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 32912
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 32913
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 51367
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 53801
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 56194, 56195, 56196
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 60922
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 31910
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 31914
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 31911, 31912, 31913
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 31909
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 31910
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 31914
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1320 · AH
source lines 31911, 31912, 31913
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1322 · AH
source lines 31909
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0supplemental-workbook · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 4165
cells Sheet1!DS4165
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0supplemental-workbook · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321 · AH
source lines 4164
cells Sheet1!DS4164

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered, supplemental
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 4 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (88)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1302recovered · dobirth
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
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birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
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schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
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schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
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schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
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apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
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qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 29948, 29949, 29950, 29951
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
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telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
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religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
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nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
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fatherJobEvkaf-i Humayun Hademesirecovered · fatherjob
source lines 29948, 29949, 29950, 29951
fatherJobevkaf-i humayun hademesirecovered · father_job
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firstWorkH1317recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
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firstWorkG1899recovered · firstjobyear
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firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
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firstWorkSalary20recovered · firstjob_wage
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birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
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nameAbdülkadir Hifzi Efendi september · İsim
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schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
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schoolingYears7september · education_year
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apprenticeshipYears0september · mulazemet
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apprenticeshipYears0september · MülazemetSüresi
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qualification1september · qualification
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telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
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nameAbdülkadir Hifzi Efendi older · İsim
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nameAbdulkadir Hifzi Efendisupplemental · name
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firstWorkH1317supplemental · firstjob_year
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nameAbdulkadir Hifzi Efendisupplemental · name
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firstJobSalary20supplemental · firstjob_salary
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Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

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Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Abdülkadir Hifzi Efendi”, archival reference 107_201; 399, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-0a29a2ea6a416184/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-0a29a2ea6a416184/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.