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Mehmed Feyzi Efendi

Born 1837/38 (AH 1253) · Hereke · Dated entries 1850 to 1904 (AH 1267 to 1321)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.877

The career, year by year

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

Stage 1 of 7 · Hereke

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1837/38 (AH 1253)

    Hereke

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1850/51 (AH 1267)

    Hereke / Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    1. Hereke

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 14

    2. Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

      Fabrika görevlisi; özel görevi belirtilmemiş

      Calculated age 14

  3. 3

    1851/52 (AH 1268)

    Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    1. Fabrika görevlisi; özel görevi belirtilmemiş

      Calculated age 15

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1856/57 (AH 1273) · 10 recorded years

    Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    AH entries: 1273, 1274, 1275, 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    1. Fabrika görevlisi; özel görevi belirtilmemiş (Nakil)

      Calculated age 20

      Recorded service ending

    2. Boyahane muallimi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 29

    All 13 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 8 recorded years

    Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    1. Boyahane muallimi

      600 kuruşCalculated age 37

    2. Boyahane muallimi

      345 kuruşCalculated age 44

      Continuing service as described

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu; Location not recorded

    1. Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

      Boyahane muallimi

      345 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Maaş kaydı

      345 kuruşCalculated age 45

  7. 7

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu

    1. Boyahane muallimi (Nakil)

      Calculated age 68

      Recorded service ending

    2. Muallim-i evvel

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 68

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

2 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 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

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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
1856/57 (AH 1273)300400100 to 5,00037.3%76
1857/58 (AH 1274)300400100 to 3,00041.0%96
1858/59 (AH 1275)300500150 to 5,00028.8%105
1859/60 (AH 1276)300500150 to 3,35025.4%111
1860/61 (AH 1277)300500150 to 3,00027.8%134
1861/62 (AH 1278)300500150 to 3,00027.5%161
1862/63 (AH 1279)300400140 to 3,00034.7%197
1863/64 (AH 1280)300475125 to 3,00034.2%232
1864/65 (AH 1281)400400125 to 3,00047.6%253
1865/66 (AH 1282)500400150 to 2,00053.2%341
1873/74 (AH 1290)600405130 to 2,20062.9%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)600450150 to 1,80063.8%882
1875/76 (AH 1292)600450150 to 2,00063.4%976
1876/77 (AH 1293)600420150 to 2,00064.1%1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)690450150 to 1,80069.2%1160
1878 (AH 1295)690450150 to 2,00069.9%1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)690400150 to 2,00069.5%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)345400180 to 1,80039.4%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)345400160 to 1,50040.9%1448
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,250405150 to 1,45087.6%1578

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. Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu22
    1850 to 1904 (AH 1267 to 1321)

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. Hereke Fabrika-yı Hümayunu300 to 1,250

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. 1856 to 1881 (AH 1273 to 1298)
  2. 1850 to 1852 (AH 1267 to 1268)
  3. 1880/81 (AH 1298)
  4. 1903/04 (AH 1321)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Mahallî sıbyan mektebi [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

Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 93, 94

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.877

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 22 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

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