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Mustafa Kâmil Efendi

Born 1843/44 (AH 1259) · Malatya · Dated entries 1863 to 1884 (AH 1280 to 1301)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD.00008.00341, s. 675

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 4 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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Malatya

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

    1843/44 (AH 1259)

    Malatya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1863/64 (AH 1280)

    Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Tahrirat ve Muhasebe Kalemleri devam

      Calculated age 21

  3. 3

    1864/65 (AH 1281) · 7 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat ve Muhasebe Kalemleri devam

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat Kalemi memuru

      200 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1875/76 (AH 1292) · 10 recorded years

    Malatya

    AH entries: 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Defter-i Hakani Kalemi İkinci Kâtibi

      235 kuruşCalculated age 33

    2. Defter-i Hakani İkinci Kâtibi (Azil)

      Calculated age 42

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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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
1870/71 (AH 1287)200400150 to 2,00015.3%649
1875/76 (AH 1292)235450150 to 2,00019.8%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)235420150 to 2,00020.9%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)235450150 to 1,80020.9%1160
1878 (AH 1295)235450150 to 2,00020.7%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)235400150 to 2,00018.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)235400180 to 1,80016.4%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)188400160 to 1,50011.3%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)188400150 to 1,50012.6%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)188400150 to 1,40011.7%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)188400150 to 1,40011.7%1720

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. 1863 to 1884 (AH 1280 to 1301)

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. Malatya188 to 235

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. 1875 to 1884 (AH 1292 to 1301)
  2. 1863 to 1871 (AH 1280 to 1287)
  3. 1870/71 (AH 1287)

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 Sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahval defterlerine göre Malatya doğumlu memurlar: 1879-1909

    RAMAZAN ÇELEM · 2014 · Pages 337, 338

    DH. SAİD.00008.00341, s. 675

Read the original source accounts · 22 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 · 18 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 22 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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