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Hocazâde Mehmed Cevdet Efendi

Born 1862/63 (AH 1279) · İstoloça · Dated entries 1878 to 1886 (AH 1295 to 1303)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1878 (AH 1295): Telgrafhane mülazımı, Hersek1878 (AH 1295): Telgrafhane mülazımı (İnfisal), Hersek1882/83 (AH 1300): Asker, place unspecified1883/84 (AH 1301): Asker, place unspecified1883/84 (AH 1301): Onbaşı, place unspecified1884/85 (AH 1302): Onbaşı, place unspecified1884/85 (AH 1302): Onbaşı (İnfisal), place unspecified1885/86 (AH 1303): Vergi kâtibi, Evranya, 300 kuruşAH 1295AH 1300AH 1303
Places and reading notes
  • Hersek
  • Evranya

5 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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.

Hersek
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · İstoloça

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.

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

  1. 1

    1862/63 (AH 1279)

    İstoloça

    Not yet located on the map: İstoloça

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Hersek

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

    3. Telgrafhane mülazımı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Asker

      Calculated age 21

    2. Asker

      Calculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    3. Onbaşı

      Calculated age 22

    4. Onbaşı

      Calculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    5. Onbaşı (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 23

  4. 4

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Evranya

    Not yet located on the map: Evranya

    1. Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 24

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
01503001885/86AH 13031885/86 (AH 1303) · 300 kuruş

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. Evranya1
    1885/86 (AH 1303)
  2. 1878 (AH 1295)

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. Evranya300

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. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  2. 1883 to 1885 (AH 1301 to 1302)
  3. 1878 (AH 1295)
  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)

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; rüşdiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İstoloça [source]
Birth province
Hersek Sancağı [source]
Birth year
1862/63 (AH 1279) [source]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education detail
Mukaddime-i ulûm; rüşdiyede Arapça ve Farsça öğrenimi [source]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; rüşdiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
hersek [source]
First work year
1878 (AH 1295) [source]

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. II. Abdülhamid Dönemi Bosna-Hersekli devlet adamları

    DİLEK AKDEMİR · 2018 · Pages 178, 179

Read the original source accounts · 9 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 · 5 dated years

How to read the records

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