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Hüseyin Faik Efendi

Born 1858/59 (AH 1275) · Harput · Dated entries 1878 to 1905 (AH 1295 to 1322)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD 39-34

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 12 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.

1HarputKoy Sanjaq (Köysancak)Al-Qurnah (Kurna)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 12 · Harput

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.

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

  1. 1

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Harput

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Hale

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hale

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years

    Hale

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

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hale

    1. Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bidayet mahkemesi hukuk dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1881/82 (AH 1299) · 2 recorded years

    Hale / Müntefik

    AH entries: 1299, 1300. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hale; Müntefik

    1. Hale

      Bidayet mahkemesi hukuk dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Müntefik

      Evrak Müdürü

      320 kuruşCalculated age 25

    All 9 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1883/84 (AH 1301)

    Müntefik / Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Müntefik

    1. Müntefik

      Evrak Müdürü

      320 kuruşCalculated age 26

      Continuing service as described

    2. Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak)

      Tahrirat kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 26

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302) · 3 recorded years

    Koy Sanjaq (Köysancak)

    AH entries: 1302, 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kâtibi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kâtibi (İstifa)

      Calculated age 29

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Müntefik / Sukuş-Şuyuh

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Müntefik; Sukuş-Şuyuh

    1. Müntefik

      Muhasebe kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 30

    2. Sukuş-Şuyuh

      Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 4 recorded years

    Sukuş-Şuyuh

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Sukuş-Şuyuh

    1. Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1892/93 (AH 1310)

    Sukuş-Şuyuh / Müntefik / Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sukuş-Şuyuh; Müntefik

    1. Sukuş-Şuyuh

      Mal Müdürü

      540 kuruşCalculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

    2. Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

      Mal Müdürü

      450 kuruşCalculated age 35

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Al-Qurnah (Kurna) / Sukuş-Şuyuh

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sukuş-Şuyuh

    1. Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

      Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 38

      Recorded service ending

    2. Sukuş-Şuyuh

      Mal Müdürü

      520 kuruşCalculated age 38

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  11. 11

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 4 recorded years

    Sukuş-Şuyuh

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sukuş-Şuyuh

    1. Mal Müdürü

      648 kuruşCalculated age 39

    2. Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 42

      Recorded service ending

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  12. 12

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Al-Qurnah (Kurna) / Sah / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sah; Location not recorded

    1. Al-Qurnah (Kurna)

      Mal müdürü (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 47

      Recorded service ending

    2. Place not recorded

      Vefat

      Calculated age 47

    All 3 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. Sukuş-Şuyuh11
    1887 to 1900 (AH 1305 to 1317)
  2. Hale6
    1878 to 1883 (AH 1295 to 1300)
  3. Müntefik5
    1881 to 1893 (AH 1299 to 1310)
  4. 1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304)
  5. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  6. Sah1
    1904/05 (AH 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. Sukuş-Şuyuh324 to 648
  2. Hale150 to 300
  3. Müntefik320 to 400
  4. Sah800

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. 1887 to 1905 (AH 1305 to 1322)
  2. 1879 to 1883 (AH 1297 to 1300)
  3. 1878 to 1888 (AH 1295 to 1305)
  4. 1883 to 1887 (AH 1301 to 1304)
  5. 1882 to 1884 (AH 1300 to 1301)
  6. 1883/84 (AH 1301)

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; özel öğretmen [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Arabic · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
  • Persian · Tekellüm [source]
  • Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 173, 174

    BOA. DH. SAİD 39-34

Read the original source accounts · 52 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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