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Mustafa Lütfi Efendi

Born 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Ürgüp · Dated entries 1889 to 1909 (AH 1307 to 1326)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00167/00090

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.

1ÜrgüpHaymanaKayseriDeveli
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Ürgüp

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

  1. 1

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Ürgüp

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Günyüzü

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Günyüzü

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 13

    2. Tahrirat kâtibi vekili

      66.5 kuruşCalculated age 13

  3. 3

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Haymana / Kayseri

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Haymana

      Tahrirat kâtibi vekili

      130 kuruşCalculated age 15

    2. Kayseri

      Tahsilat müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 15

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 14 recorded years

    Kayseri

    AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323. Gaps remain open.

    1. Tahsilat müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahsilat müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    All 14 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Kayseri / Develi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kayseri

      Tahsilat müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    2. Develi

      Tahsilat müfettişi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 30

  6. 6

    1907/08 (AH 1325) · 2 recorded years

    Develi

    AH entries: 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahsilat müfettişi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 31

    2. Tahsil memuru

      Calculated age 32

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry without a resolved year

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

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

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

View the yearly values
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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1889/90 (AH 1307)66.5400130 to 1,5003.7%1874
1891/92 (AH 1309)400400140 to 1,60045.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)400400135 to 1,50045.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)400400140 to 1,40044.7%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)400400140 to 1,50044.7%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)400450150 to 1,57542.2%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)400400140 to 1,42545.2%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)400400144 to 1,40044.3%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)400400140 to 1,44044.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)400400140 to 1,50045.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)400400150 to 1,52043.9%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)400400150 to 1,50044.4%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)400405150 to 1,45043.1%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)400400135 to 1,50042.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)400430125 to 1,50041.3%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)400450150 to 1,52541.1%1371

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. 1891 to 1907 (AH 1309 to 1324)
  2. 1906 to 1909 (AH 1324 to 1326)
  3. Günyüzü1
    1889/90 (AH 1307)
  4. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Günyüzü66.5

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. 1891 to 1907 (AH 1309 to 1324)
  2. 1889 to 1892 (AH 1307 to 1309)
  3. 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)

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

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling İstanbul sıbyan mektebi; Konya rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Ürgüplü devlet adamları

    HATİCE KÜBRA YILDIZ · 2020 · Pages 121

    177 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00167/00090. 107; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, 00167/00090.

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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 24 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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