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Hafız Đsmail Hakkı Efendi

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1886 to 1911 (AH 1304 to 1328)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.64, s.186; BOA, DH SA İD nr.64, s.186

The career, year by year

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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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Safranbolu

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

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Safranbolu

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1886/87 (AH 1304)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 19

    2. İstinaf Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi kalemi mülazımı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İstinaf Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi kalemi mülazımı

      50 kuruşCalculated age 20

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstinaf Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi kalemi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 21

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1890/91 (AH 1308) · 21 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Evkaf Masarifat-ı Umumiye İdaresi Dışarı Şubesi memuru

      160 kuruşCalculated age 23

    2. Birinci sınıf katip

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 43

    All 43 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 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. 1886 to 1911 (AH 1304 to 1328)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

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. 1891 to 1911 (AH 1309 to 1328)
  2. 1900 to 1907 (AH 1318 to 1324)
  3. 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)
  4. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  5. 1886 to 1888 (AH 1304 to 1305)
  6. 1907 to 1909 (AH 1325 to 1326)

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; Ayasofya Camii (Arabi tasdikat ve meaniye kadar) [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · tefehhüm eder [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)

    AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 60, 61, 62, 63

    35 BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.64, s.186; BOA, DH SA İD nr.64, s.186

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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 · 24 dated years

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