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Hacı Mehmed Şerif Efendi

Born 1858/59 (AH 1275) · Tokat · Dated entries 1876 to 1907 (AH 1293 to 1324)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 149, s. 163

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1876/77 (AH 1293): stajyer, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi1888/89 (AH 1306): Memur, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi, 400 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307): Memur, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi1890/91 (AH 1308): Memur, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi1891/92 (AH 1309): Memur, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi1892/93 (AH 1310): Memur, Devlet Matbaası İdaresi1893/94 (AH 1311): Erzak Ambarı baş görevlisi, Erzak Ambarı, 500 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324): Erzak Ambarı baş görevlisi, Erzak Ambarı, 1,000 kuruşAH 1293AH 1310AH 1324
Places and reading notes
  • Devlet Matbaası İdaresi
  • Erzak Ambarı

8 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 5 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.

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

Stage 1 of 5 · Tokat

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.

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

  1. 1

    1858/59 (AH 1275)

    Tokat

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Devlet Matbaası İdaresi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Devlet Matbaası İdaresi

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. stajyer

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1888/89 (AH 1306) · 5 recorded years

    Devlet Matbaası İdaresi

    AH entries: 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Devlet Matbaası İdaresi

    1. Memur

      400 kuruşCalculated age 31

    2. Memur

      Calculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    3. Memur

      Calculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    4. Memur

      Calculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

    5. Memur

      Calculated age 35

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1893/94 (AH 1311)

    Erzak Ambarı

    Not yet located on the map: Erzak Ambarı

    1. Erzak Ambarı baş görevlisi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

  5. 5

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Erzak Ambarı

    Not yet located on the map: Erzak Ambarı

    1. Erzak Ambarı baş görevlisi

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 49

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
05001,0001888/89AH 13061897/98AH 13151906/07AH 13241888/89 (AH 1306) · 400 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · 500 kuruş1906/07 (AH 1324) · 1,000 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. Devlet Matbaası İdaresi6
    1876 to 1893 (AH 1293 to 1310)
  2. Erzak Ambarı2
    1893 to 1907 (AH 1311 to 1324)

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. Devlet Matbaası İdaresi400
  2. Erzak Ambarı500 to 1,000

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. 1888 to 1893 (AH 1306 to 1310)
  2. 1893 to 1907 (AH 1311 to 1324)
  3. 1876/77 (AH 1293)

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 [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
Tokat [source]
Birth year
1858/59 (AH 1275) [source]
Father’s occupation
terzi [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 149, s. 163 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
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
18 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Devlet Matbaası İdaresi [source]
First work year
1876/77 (AH 1293) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı döneminde Tokatlı devlet memurları ( 1879-1909 )

    ÜMMÜHAN UĞURLU · 2013 · Pages 163, 164

    BOA. DH. SAİD., No: 149, s. 163

Read the original source accounts · 8 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 · 8 dated years

How to read the records

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