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Hasan Tevfik Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Aleppo (Halep) · Dated entries 1847 to 1881 (AH 1264 to 1298)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 15/93

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 7 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.

1Damascus (Şam)Jerusalem (Kudüs)Acre (Akka)HavranAleppo (Halep)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 7 · Damascus (Şam)

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

  1. 1

    1847/48 (AH 1264)

    Damascus (Şam)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

    2. Nüfus kâtibi

      300 kuruş

  2. 2

    1859/60 (AH 1276) · 12 recorded years

    Damascus (Şam)

    AH entries: 1276, 1277, 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Meclis-i Kebir kâtip yardımcısı

      400 kuruş

    2. Suriye Mutasarrıflığı tahrirat müdürü

      2,500 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    All 18 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Damascus (Şam) / Jerusalem (Kudüs)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Damascus (Şam)

      Suriye Mutasarrıflığı tahrirat müdürü (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

    2. Jerusalem (Kudüs)

      Defter-i Hakani memuru

      1,000 kuruş

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1872/73 (AH 1289) · 2 recorded years

    Acre (Akka)

    AH entries: 1289, 1290. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muhasebeci

      2,375 kuruş

    2. Muhasebeci (İnfisal)

      Recorded service ending

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Belka

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Belka

    1. Aşar Memuru

      2,500 kuruş

    2. Aşar memuru (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Recorded service ending

  6. 6

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Damascus (Şam)

    1. Meclis İdaresi başkâtibi

      1,600 kuruş

  7. 7

    1878 (AH 1295) · 4 recorded years

    Havran

    AH entries: 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muhasebe memuru

      2,750 kuruş

    2. Cebel-i Düruz Havran Islahatı memuru ve komisyon azası

    All 7 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. 1847 to 1876 (AH 1264 to 1292)
  2. 1878 to 1881 (AH 1295 to 1298)
  3. 1872 to 1874 (AH 1289 to 1290)
  4. Belka1
    1874/75 (AH 1291)
  5. 1871/72 (AH 1288)

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. Damascus (Şam)300 to 2,500
  2. Havran2,000 to 2,750
  3. Belka2,500

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. 1866 to 1872 (AH 1283 to 1288)
  2. 1860 to 1866 (AH 1277 to 1282)
  3. 1878 to 1880 (AH 1295 to 1297)
  4. 1859 to 1861 (AH 1276 to 1277)
  5. 1872 to 1874 (AH 1289 to 1290)
  6. 1874/75 (AH 1291)

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 Şam Mekteb-i Fünun-ı Harbiye; Mısır Kasr-ı Ali Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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

Sources and evidence

  1. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 106, 107, 108

    344 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 15/93.; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 15/93

Read the original source accounts · 37 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 · 22 dated years

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