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David Bahar Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1901 to 1905 (AH 1319 to 1322)

Languages French, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Follow 2 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Istanbul (Dersaadet) / İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

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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.

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

  1. 1

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

    2. İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

      stajyer

  2. 2

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 2 recorded years

    İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

    AH entries: 1321, 1322. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

    1. stajyer/memur

      100 kuruş

    2. stajyer/memur

      100 kuruş

      Continuing service as described

    3. Memur

      150 kuruş

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.

  • Birth · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Year not recorded

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.

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1901/02 (AH 1319): stajyer, İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi1903/04 (AH 1321): stajyer/memur, İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi, 100 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322): stajyer/memur, İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi, 100 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322): Memur, İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi, 150 kuruşAH 1319AH 1322
  • İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi

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

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
0751501903/04AH 13211904/05AH 13221903/04 (AH 1321) · 100 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322) · 100 kuruş1904/05 (AH 1322) · 150 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. İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi3
    1901 to 1905 (AH 1319 to 1322)

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. İstanbul Postahanesi İttihat Dairesi100 to 150

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. 1903 to 1905 (AH 1321 to 1322)
  2. 1904/05 (AH 1322)
  3. 1901/02 (AH 1319)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İdadi diploması [1]

Schooling Millet mektebi; İdadi mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • French · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
İstanbul [source]
Father’s occupation
Esnaf [source]
Nationality or community
Yahudi [source]
Religion
Musevi [source]
Archive references
165 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00120/00101, s. 199. [1]BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00120/00101, s. 199. [1]

Education and languages

French
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Rum (as recorded)
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]İdadi diploması [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Millet mektebi; İdadi mektebi [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
İstanbul [source]
First work year
1901/02 (AH 1319) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde İstanbul doğumlu Yahudi ve Rum devlet adamları

    AHMET SÜRMEN · 2011 · Pages 90

    165 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00120/00101, s. 199.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 00120/00101, s. 199.

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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 · 3 dated years

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