Official
Hüseyin Fehmi Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). On record 1883 to 1905, 21 annual entries.
Archive reference 0091_0165: 327
Life#
Hüseyin Fehmi Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1866/67 (AH 1283). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Esnaf.
Schooling recorded: Darüşşafaka, with 12 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1883/84 (AH 1301). The official was then about 17 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 150 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1883/84, the official was about 17 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1883/84, shows Muhabere Memuru in Beyoğlu, with 150 kuruş a month. In 1885/86 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa), the salary going from 150 to 650 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Beyoğlu). In 1889/90 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Skopje (Üsküp), the salary going from 250 to 750 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Svilengrad). In 1890/91 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Istanbul, the salary going from 750 to 700 kuruş a month (before: Seyyar Memur in Skopje). In 1894/95 the record shows Mevrude Memuru in Istanbul, the salary going from 750 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Seyyar Memur in Istanbul). In 1897/98 the record shows Posta Memuru in Istanbul, the salary going from 430 to 560 kuruş a month (before: Mevrude Memuru in Istanbul). No annual entry is recorded for 1896/97.
The highest salary, 750 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1889/90 as Seyyar Memur. 74 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 21 years with a salary the median is 600 kuruş a month, with 9 rises and 3 cuts. The largest rise, 500 kuruş, is seen in 1885/86. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 7.61 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1904/05, when 75 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Esnaf
Education
- Darüşşafaka
- Darüşşafaka (12 years)Darüşşafaka (school for orphans in Istanbul)
- Higher or professional
- Telgraf Mektebitelegraph school; recorded as a code
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Darüşşafaka
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- Yes
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 150
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Görev ihmali / dört beş nöbet bila özür şer‘i postanın başına gelmeyip tehirata uğrattığı cihetle muamelatın sekteden vikayesi için tarih-i mezkurda dört yüz guruş maaşla Dersaadet Postahanesi Mekatib-i Mevrude Taahhüt Memuriyeti’ne nakil olunmuştur.; Görev İhmali
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1312; 1316; 1317; 1319; 1321
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84AH 1301 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 150first-salary field |
| 1883 to 1885AH 1301 to 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Beyoğlu | 150 |
| 1885 to 1889AH 1303 to 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) | 650 to 250 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Seyyar Memur | Skopje (Üsküp) | 750 |
| 1890 to 1894AH 1308 to 1311 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 700 to 750 |
| 1894 to 1896AH 1312 to 1313 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 to 430 |
| No annual entry: 1896/97 (AH 1314) | |||
| 1897 to 1905AH 1315 to 1322 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 560 to 700 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84 | 150 | 500 | 400 | 2% |
| 1884/85 | 150 | 500 | 400 | 1% |
| 1885/86 | 650 | 500 | 400 | 70% |
| 1886/87 | 650 | 500 | 400 | 71% |
| 1887/88 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 7% |
| 1888/89 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 8% |
| 1889/90 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 74% |
| 1890/91 | 700 | 500 | 600 | 73% |
| 1891/92 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 75% |
| 1892/93 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 76% |
| 1893/94 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 76% |
| 1894/95 | 400 | 500 | 325 | 30% |
| 1895/96 | 430 | 500 | 327.5 | 43% |
| 1897/98 | 560 | 500 | 350 | 71% |
| 1898/99 | 580 | 500 | 387.5 | 71% |
| 1899/1900 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 70% |
| 1900/01 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 67% |
| 1901/02 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 67% |
| 1902/03 | 650 | 500 | 400 | 73% |
| 1903/04 | 700 | 475 | 400 | 75% |
| 1904/05 | 700 | 450 | 400 | 75% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Bahcivan Oglu Kalparki EfendiIstanbul and 1 other place, 16 shared years
- Ahmet Cemal EfendiIstanbul and 1 other place, 16 shared years
- Ali Riza BeyIstanbul and 1 other place, 16 shared years
- Zennub Kapamacıyan EfendiIstanbul and 1 other place, 16 shared years
- Ali Haydar EfendiIstanbul, 14 shared years
1,235 officials in all. Officials recorded in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Same school recorded
- Ahmet Lütfi EfendiDarüşşafaka, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ali Cenap EfendiDarüşşafaka, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Hamit EfendiDarüşşafaka, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Mehmed Mustafa EfendiDarüşşafaka, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Mehmet Niyazi EfendiDarüşşafaka, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
202 officials in all. Officials with Darüşşafaka recorded
Same birthplace
- Ahmet Rıfat EfendiIstanbul, born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Aleksan EfendiIstanbul, born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Ali Bedri EfendiIstanbul, born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Ali Cenap EfendiIstanbul, born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Ali Haydar EfendiIstanbul, born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
1,998 officials in all. Officials born in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Full record
Annual entries (21)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Muhabere Memuru | Beyoğlu | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Beyoğlu | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) | 650 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) | 650 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Svilengrad (Cisr-i Mustafapaşa) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Seyyar Memur | Skopje (Üsküp) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 430 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 560 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 580 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 650 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Posta Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 700 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0091_0165: 327 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (18)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Hüseyin Fehmi Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1283 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Esnaf | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Darussafaka | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 12 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Telegraph school (recorded code) | 1 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1301 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1884 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 150 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Görev ihmali / dört beş nöbet bila özür şer‘i postanın başına gelmeyip tehirata uğrattığı cihetle muamelatın sekteden vikayesi için tarih-i mezkurda dört yüz guruş maaşla Dersaadet Postahanesi Mekatib-i Mevrude Taahhüt Memuriyeti’ne nakil olunmuştur. used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Görev İhmali other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1312; 1316; 1317; 1319; 1321 | Later annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- Later annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 21 annual entries of 21 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.