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Hasan Tahsin Bey

Born 1881/82 (AH 1299) · Edirne · Dated entries 1903 to 1910 (AH 1321 to 1327)

Languages English, French, Turkish

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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Edirne

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

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Edirne

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 22

    2. Rüsumat Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Mektubi Kalemi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 22

  3. 3

    1904/05 (AH 1322) · 5 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Rüsumat Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Mektubi Kalemi memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Rüsumat Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Tercüme Kalemi memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 27

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Place not recorded / Varna

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Place not recorded

      Rüsumat Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Tercüme Kalemi memuru (Nakil)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

    2. Varna

      Varna tüccar vekili

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 5 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 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

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. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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. Varna2,000

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. 1905 to 1910 (AH 1323 to 1327)
  2. 1903 to 1906 (AH 1321 to 1323)
  3. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Edebiyat ve ulum şahadetnameleri [1]

Schooling İbtidai mektep; Gülhane ve Selanik askeri mektepleri; Selanik ve Şam Lazarist Fransız mektepleri; Osmanlı Hukuk Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • English · meh-ma-emken kitabet [source]
  • French · Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]
  • Turkish · Tekellüm ve kitâbet [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)

    BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 224, 225

Read the original source accounts · 16 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 · 7 dated years

How to read the records

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