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Hafız Ahmet Halit Efendi

Born 1834/35 (AH 1250) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1858/59 (AH 1275)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d 21-127

The career, year by year

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

1858/59 (AH 1275): Nüfus dairesi (görev belirtilmemiş), BeykozAH 1275
Places and reading notes
  • Beykoz

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

Follow 2 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)Beykoz
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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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.

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

    1834/35 (AH 1250)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Beykoz

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 25

    2. Nüfus dairesi (görev belirtilmemiş)

      Calculated age 25

7 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.

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

This dossier has no validated link to the annual salary comparison.

Career patterns and pay

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1858/59 (AH 1275)

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

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1858/59 (AH 1275)

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

Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Süleymaniye Camii [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İstanbul [source]
Birth province
Dersaadet [source]
Birth year
1834/35 (AH 1250) [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d 21-127 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi; Süleymaniye Camii [source]

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
23 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Beykoz [source]
First work year
1858/59 (AH 1275) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi'nde Sinoplu Devlet Adamları (Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre: 1879-1909 )

    ZEHRA DENİZ · 2019 · Pages 146, 147

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d 21-127

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