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Hüsnü Efendi

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Bursa · Dated entries 1881 to 1898 (AH 1299 to 1315)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference 117/150; 297

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 5 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.

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

Stage 1 of 5 · Bursa

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.

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

  1. 1

    1866/67 (AH 1283)

    Bursa

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 7 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. müzâyede kitâbeti

      190 kuruşCalculated age 17

    2. Bursa makitâbet istimare me'murluğu

      Calculated age 23

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. (mülazemet)

      Calculated age 27

    2. tütün öşri kitâbeti

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

  5. 5

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 2 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. İnegöl sandık eminliği

      450 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Küplü Düyûn-ı umûmiye me'murluğu

      400 kuruşCalculated age 32

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

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
1882/83 (AH 1300)190400150 to 1,40012.0%1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)190400150 to 1,40012.2%1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)190400150 to 1,50012.3%1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)190400150 to 1,50012.9%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)190400150 to 1,50012.8%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)190400150 to 1,50013.7%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)190400135 to 1,50014.5%1797
1892/93 (AH 1310)250400135 to 1,50021.3%1935
1896/97 (AH 1314)450450150 to 1,57549.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)450400140 to 1,42553.2%1891

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.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1882 to 1889 (AH 1300 to 1306)
  2. 1881 to 1893 (AH 1299 to 1310)
  3. 1896 to 1898 (AH 1314 to 1315)
  4. 1885 to 1887 (AH 1303 to 1304)
  5. 1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
  6. 1886/87 (AH 1304)

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; rüşdiye 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. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 175,176

    117/150; 297

Read the original source accounts · 18 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 · 11 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 18 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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