İsmail Vasıf Efendi

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Sarajevo (Saraybosna) · Dated entries 1882 to 1908 (AH 1300 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 154/40

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The life

İsmail Vasıf Efendi was born in Sarajevo (Saraybosna) in 1868/69 (AH 1285). The father’s occupation was Gable iskelesi rüsumat memuru. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye; idadi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Saruhan. Dated career entries span 1882/83 (AH 1300) to 1907/08 (AH 1325) across 20 AH years, from Saruhan to İzmir merkez kazası, beginning with Geçici aşar kâtibi. More than one post or place appears in 6 of those years. Place names include Saruhan, Mostar, Kasye and Mefneya and 2 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 300 kuruş in 1882/83 (AH 1300) to 700 kuruş in 1907/08 (AH 1325); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,400 kuruş in 1893/94 (AH 1311).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Sarajevo (Saraybosna) · 1868/69 (AH 1285)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Gable iskelesi rüsumat memuru^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye; idadi^[source]
First work: Saruhan^[source]

Career in numbers

20
Dated AH years: 6
Career place names: 1
Entries without a resolved year: 17
Salary years: 300 → 700
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,400
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 66.8%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1882/83 (AH 1300) to 1907/08 (AH 1325); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1907/08 (AH 1325).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 13 · Sarajevo (Saraybosna)

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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.

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9 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

1
1868/69 (AH 1285)
Sarajevo (Saraybosna)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1882/83 (AH 1300)
Saruhan
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Saruhan
1. Geçici aşar kâtibi
  300 kuruşCalculated age 15
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Geçici aşar kâtibi (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 15
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1884/85 (AH 1302) · 2 recorded years
Mostar
AH entries: 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Merkez ambar muavini
  Calculated age 17
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Merkez ambar muavini (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 18
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1889/90 (AH 1307)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Askerlik nedeniyle ara
  Calculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1892/93 (AH 1310)
Kasye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Kasye
1. Ağnam icmal kâtibi
  Calculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar kol memuru (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 25
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1893/94 (AH 1311) · 3 recorded years
Saruhan
AH entries: 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Saruhan
1. Ziraat Bankası şube kâtibi
  1,400 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar üçüncü kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1896/97 (AH 1314) · 3 recorded years
Mefneya
AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mefneya
1. Aşar memuriyeti ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar memuriyeti ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 5 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Mefneya / İzmir merkez kazası
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mefneya; İzmir merkez kazası
1. Mefneya
  Aşar memuriyeti ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. İzmir merkez kazası
  Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1900/01 (AH 1318) · 3 recorded years
İzmir merkez kazası
AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: İzmir merkez kazası
1. Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1903/04 (AH 1321)
İzmir merkez kazası / Place not recorded / Izmir (İzmir)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İzmir merkez kazası; Location not recorded
1. İzmir merkez kazası
  Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Izmir (İzmir)
  Ağnam ve hayvanat icmal kâtibi
  Calculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
11
1904/05 (AH 1322)
İzmir merkez kazası
Not yet located on the map: İzmir merkez kazası
1. Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1905/06 (AH 1323)
İzmir merkez kazası / Place not recorded / Izmir (İzmir)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İzmir merkez kazası; Location not recorded
1. İzmir merkez kazası
  Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. İzmir merkez kazası
  Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 7 recorded entries in this stage →
13
1906/07 (AH 1324) · 2 recorded years
İzmir merkez kazası
AH entries: 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İzmir merkez kazası
1. Aşar ikinci kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Aşar başkâtibi
  700 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Aşar müdüriyeti kalemi mülazımı · Saruhan · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · Saruhan · Year not recorded

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1882/83 (AH 1300)	300	400	150 to 1,400	27.9%	1655
1892/93 (AH 1310)	400	400	135 to 1,500	45.0%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	1,400	400	140 to 1,400	88.9%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	1,400	400	140 to 1,500	88.5%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	1,400	400	140 to 1,500	87.7%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	500	450	150 to 1,575	52.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	500	400	140 to 1,425	56.9%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	500	400	144 to 1,400	55.8%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	500	400	140 to 1,440	55.3%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.5%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	500	400	150 to 1,520	54.4%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	500	400	150 to 1,500	55.5%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	500	405	150 to 1,450	54.0%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	500	400	135 to 1,500	55.0%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	500	430	125 to 1,500	52.7%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	500	450	150 to 1,525	51.5%	1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)	700	460	135 to 1,615	66.8%	1290

Career patterns and pay

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

İzmir merkez kazası9
1899 to 1908 (AH 1317 to 1325)
Mefneya4
1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
Saruhan4
1882 to 1896 (AH 1300 to 1313)
Izmir (İzmir)2
1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
Mostar2
1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
Kasye1
1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

İzmir merkez kazası500 to 700
Mefneya450 to 500
Saruhan300 to 1,400
Kasye400

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

Aşar ikinci kâtibi9
1899 to 1908 (AH 1317 to 1325)
Aşar memuriyeti ikinci kâtibi4
1896 to 1900 (AH 1314 to 1317)
Ziraat Bankası şube kâtibi3
1893 to 1896 (AH 1311 to 1313)
Ağnam ve hayvanat icmal kâtibi2
1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
Infisal2
1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
Merkez ambar muavini2
1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)

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

Related officials in the salary reference

Sarajevo (Saraybosna)9 other officialsMahmud Nuri Efendi born 1867/68 (AH 1284); no salary recorded
Izmir (İzmir)12 other officialsHasan Fehmi Efendi 2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
1882/83 (AH 1300)236 other officialsHalil Efendi first annual entry 1882/83 (AH 1300); highest salary 500 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; rüştiye; idadi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Hersek doğumlu Osmanlı devlet memurları
GÖKÇE YANARDAĞ · 2024 · Pages 88, 89
167 BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 154/40.; BOA. DH. SAİD. D. 154/40.

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