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Hafız Mehmet Şükrü Efendi

Born 1867/68 (AH 1284) · Kütahya · Dated entries 1884 to 1897 (AH 1302 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD., No:74, s.1

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 3 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.

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

Stage 1 of 3 · Kütahya

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. 1

    1867/68 (AH 1284)

    Kütahya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Kütahya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 12 recorded years

    Kütahya

    AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 19

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat Kalemi mübeyyiz refakati

      90 kuruşCalculated age 30

    All 14 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 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. 1884 to 1897 (AH 1302 to 1314)

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. Kütahya52 to 90

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. 1884 to 1896 (AH 1302 to 1313)
  2. 1895 to 1897 (AH 1313 to 1314)
  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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 İptidai mektebi; medrese [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 Defterleri'nde Osmanlı Dönemi Kütahyalı memurlar

    MUSTAFA KOCAKAYA · 2018 · Pages 86

    BOA.DH.SAİD., No:74, s.1; 101 BOA.DH.SAİD., No:74, s.1.; BOA.DH.SAİD., No:74, s.1

Read the original source accounts · 15 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 · 13 dated years

How to read the records

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