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Ömer Lütfi Efendi

Born 1856/57 (AH 1273) · Kırşehir · Dated entries 1872 to 1886 (AH 1289 to 1303)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 09/9, s.9

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1872/73 (AH 1289): tahrirat kalemi mülazımı, Kırşehir1875/76 (AH 1292): nüfus defteri mukayyidi, Kırşehir1879/80 (AH 1297): tahrir kalemi senedât ve alâmat kâtibi, Kırşehir, 200 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299): tahrir ve vergi kâtibi, Keskin, 400 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303): vergi kâtibi refiki (İnfisal), MecidiyeAH 1289AH 1303
Places and reading notes
  • Kırşehir
  • Keskin

5 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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.

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

Stage 1 of 6 · Kırşehir

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.

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

  1. 1

    1856/57 (AH 1273)

    Kırşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Kırşehir Sancağı tahrirat kalemi / Kırşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Kırşehir Sancağı tahrirat kalemi

    1. Kırşehir Sancağı tahrirat kalemi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Kırşehir

      tahrirat kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Kırşehir

    1. nüfus defteri mukayyidi

      Calculated age 19

  4. 4

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Kırşehir

    1. tahrir kalemi senedât ve alâmat kâtibi

      200 kuruşCalculated age 24

  5. 5

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Keskin

    Not yet located on the map: Keskin

    1. tahrir ve vergi kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 26

  6. 6

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Mecidiye

    Not yet located on the map: Mecidiye

    1. vergi kâtibi refiki (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 30

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
1879/80 (AH 1297)200400180 to 1,80011.0%1534
1881/82 (AH 1299)400400150 to 1,50046.6%1489

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02004001879/80AH 12971881/82AH 12991879/80 (AH 1297) · 200 kuruş1881/82 (AH 1299) · 400 kuruş

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. 1872 to 1880 (AH 1289 to 1297)
  2. Keskin1
    1881/82 (AH 1299)

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. Keskin400

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. 1875/76 (AH 1292)
  2. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
  3. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
  4. 1872/73 (AH 1289)

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]

Qualification mukaddemât-ı ulum, Arapça tahsil [1]

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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kırşehir [source]
Birth year
1856/57 (AH 1273) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 09/9, s.9 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; medrese [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.
Qualification
mukaddemât-ı ulum, Arapça tahsil [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
19 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Kırşehir Sancağı tahrirat kalemi [source]
First work year
1872/73 (AH 1289) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Kırşehir doğumlu devlet adamları

    TÜLAY TERYAKİOĞLU · 2013 · Pages 162

    155 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 09/9, s.9.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 09/9, s.9.

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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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 5 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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