Individual dossier

Ahmet Rüşdi Efendi

118-162-319Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Ahmet Rüşdi Efendi was born in Halep in AH 1297. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Antakya in AH 1321 (24 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 3 distinct AH years between 1321 and 1323; it begins with Posta Memuru in Antakya (300 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); Arabic: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 118-162-319

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1321–1323
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 59054, 61206, 63065

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 35961

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 35959
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 35960
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 35961

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1321
    Source lines 59054
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1322
    Source lines 61206
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1323
    Source lines 63065

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1321
    Source lines 34847
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1322
    Source lines 34846
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1323
    Source lines 34848

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1321
    Source lines 34847
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1322
    Source lines 34846
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1323
    Source lines 34848

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

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Life and career

3 recorded AH years · 3 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1297
  2. AH 1321Birth-year difference: 24 AH years
  3. AH 1321Birth-year difference: 24 AH years
  4. AH 1322–1323Birth-year difference: 25–26 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 1321

Posta Memuru · antakya · 300 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in Antakya. The first-salary field is 300 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorAntakya
0150300AH 1321AH 1322AH 1323AH 1321 · 1903 label: 300 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · antakyaAH 1322 · 1904 label: 300 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · marasAH 1323 · 1905 label: 300 kuruş / month · Posta Memuru · maras

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 1321 · 1903 labelRecorded first-work anchorAntakya
halep: Locality linkage; agreedhalepantakya: Locality linkage; agreedantakyamaras: Locality linkage; agreedmaras

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • 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. Locality antakya → maras

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.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Telgraf Memuru
Recorded birth year
AH 1297
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 1321 · 1903 label
Place
Antakya
First-salary field
300 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.

Recorded language repertoire

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
Arabic
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.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Postal Service

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Posta Memuru
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionPostal Serviceseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1321–1323
Source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionPosta Memurueda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 35959, 35960, 35961
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionPosta Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 35959, 35960, 35961
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 59054
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 61206
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 63065
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 35959
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 35960
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 35961
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 35959
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 35960
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 35961
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 35959
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 35960
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 35961
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 35959
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 35960
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 35961
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 35959
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 35960
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 35961
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1321
Source lines 35959
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1322
Source lines 35960
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1323
Source lines 35961
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 35959
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 35960
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 35961
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 35959
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 35960
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 35961
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 35959
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 35960
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 35961
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1321
Source lines 59054
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1322
Source lines 61206
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1323
Source lines 63065
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1321
Source lines 34847
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1322
Source lines 34846
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1323
Source lines 34848
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1321
Source lines 34847
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1322
Source lines 34846
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1323
Source lines 34848

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 3 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

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 (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1297recovered · dobirth
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
birthPlacehaleprecovered · birthplace
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
birthPlacehaleprecovered · birth_place
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
birthProvincehaleprecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
fatherJobTelgraf Memururecovered · fatherjob
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
fatherJobtelgraf memururecovered · father_job
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
firstWorkH1321recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
firstWorkG1903recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
firstWorkPlaceAntakyarecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
firstWorkSalary300recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
birthLatitude36.21319800000048recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
birthLongitude37.13361599999941recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 32730, 32731, 32732
nameAhmet Rüşdi Efendiseptember · İsim
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
birthH1297september · dobirth
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
birthPlacehalepseptember · birthplace
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
birthProvincehalepseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
apprenticeshipYears0september · mulazemet
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
apprenticeshipYears0september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
fatherJobtelgraf memuruseptember · fatherjob
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
firstWorkH1321september · firstjob_year
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
firstWorkPlaceantakyaseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
firstWorkSalary300september · firstjob_wage
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
birthLatitude36.21319800000048september · lat_birth_place
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
birthLongitude37.13361599999941september · lon_birth_place
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
language:ArabicKitabetseptember · lang_arabic
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2september · lang_arabic2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 34846, 34847, 34848
nameAhmet Rüşdi Efendiolder · İsim
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
birthH1297older · dobirth
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
birthPlacehalepolder · birthplace
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
birthProvincehalepolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
apprenticeshipYears0older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
fatherJobtelgraf memuruolder · fatherjob
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
firstWorkH1321older · firstjob_year
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
firstWorkPlaceantakyaolder · firstjob_place
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
firstWorkSalary300older · firstjob_wage
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
birthLatitude36.21319800000048older · lat_birth_place
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
birthLongitude37.13361599999941older · lon_birth_place
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
language:ArabicKitabetolder · lang_arabic
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic2older · lang_arabic2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 44191, 44373, 44391

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.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Ahmet Rüşdi Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 118-162-319. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-10438b4701dce9ef/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 118-162-319
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-10438b4701dce9ef/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.