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Hüseyin Servet Efendi

Born 1853/54 (AH 1270) · Söğüt · Dated entries 1868 to 1875 (AH 1285 to 1291)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1868/69 (AH 1285): Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri, Bilecik1869/70 (AH 1286): Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri, Bilecik1870/71 (AH 1287): Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri, Bilecik1870/71 (AH 1287): Mal Müdürü, Bilecik, 200 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290): Resmî yazı kâtibi, Bilecik, 140 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290): Belediye kâtibi ve sandık emini (İnfisal), Bilecik1874/75 (AH 1291): Dava kâtibi, Bilecik, 230 kuruşAH 1285AH 1291
Places and reading notes
  • Bilecik

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.

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

Stage 1 of 4 · Söğüt

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

    1853/54 (AH 1270)

    Söğüt

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Bilecik

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1869/70 (AH 1286) · 2 recorded years

    Bilecik

    AH entries: 1286, 1287. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tahrirat kalemi stajyeri

      Calculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    3. Mal Müdürü

      200 kuruşCalculated age 17

  4. 4

    1873/74 (AH 1290) · 2 recorded years

    Bilecik

    AH entries: 1290, 1291. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Resmî yazı kâtibi

      140 kuruşCalculated age 20

    2. Belediye kâtibi ve sandık emini (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 20

    3. Dava kâtibi

      230 kuruşCalculated age 21

4 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 only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1870/71 (AH 1287)200400150 to 2,00015.3%649
1873/74 (AH 1290)140405130 to 2,20010.1%805
1874/75 (AH 1291)230450150 to 1,80020.2%882

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
01152301870/71AH 12871872/73AH 12891874/75AH 12911870/71 (AH 1287) · 200 kuruş1873/74 (AH 1290) · 140 kuruş1874/75 (AH 1291) · 230 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. 1868 to 1875 (AH 1285 to 1291)

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. Bilecik140 to 230

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. 1868 to 1871 (AH 1285 to 1287)
  2. 1874/75 (AH 1291)
  3. 1870/71 (AH 1287)
  4. 1873/74 (AH 1290)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Söğüt Sıbyan Mektebi [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

Personal details

Birthplace
Söğüt [source]
Birth year
1853/54 (AH 1270) [source]
Father’s occupation
Bilecik mal müdürü [source]
Archive references
BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Söğüt Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
15 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Bilecik [source]
First work year
1868/69 (AH 1285) [source]
Apprenticeship
1.9 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan Bilecikli devlet adamları

    MEHMET GEYİK · 2022 · Pages 49, 50

    BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467; 69 BOA.DH.SAİD., No: 60, s. 467.

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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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 7 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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