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Hafız Süleyman Vehbi Efendi

Born 1854/55 (AH 1271) · Kütahya · Dated entries 1872 to 1899 (AH 1289 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA.DH.SAİD., No:136, s.131

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · 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.

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

  1. 1

    1854/55 (AH 1271)

    Kütahya

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1872/73 (AH 1289)

    Kütahya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 18

    2. Arazi Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 18

  3. 3

    1878 (AH 1295)

    Virancık

    Not yet located on the map: Virancık

    1. Aşar-ı Seyyar kâtibi

      500 kuruşCalculated age 24

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Simav

    1. Ağnam kâtibi

      400 kuruşCalculated age 25

  5. 5

    1880/81 (AH 1298) · 4 recorded years

    Kütahya

    AH entries: 1298, 1299, 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.

    1. Piyade Tahsildarı

      Calculated age 27

    2. Piyade Tahsildarı

      Calculated age 30

      Continuing service as described

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Kütahya / Tavşanlı

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Tavşanlı

    1. Kütahya

      Piyade Tahsildarı

      Calculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Tavşanlı

      Baş tahsildar (İstifa)

      Calculated age 31

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Dağardı

    Not yet located on the map: Dağardı

    1. Vergi kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 35

  8. 8

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Sandıklı / Aziziye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Aziziye

    1. Sandıklı

      Vergi kâtibi (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 45

    2. Aziziye

      Mal müdür muavini

      500 kuruşCalculated age 45

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 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. 1872 to 1885 (AH 1289 to 1302)
  2. Aziziye1
    1898/99 (AH 1316)
  3. Dağardı1
    1888/89 (AH 1306)
  4. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  5. Tavşanlı1
    1884/85 (AH 1302)
  6. Virancık1
    1878 (AH 1295)

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. Aziziye500
  2. Dağardı300
  3. Virancık500

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. 1880 to 1885 (AH 1298 to 1302)
  2. 1878/79 (AH 1296)
  3. 1872/73 (AH 1289)
  4. 1878 (AH 1295)
  5. 1884/85 (AH 1302)
  6. 1884/85 (AH 1302)

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 hoca [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 175, 176

    BOA.DH.SAİD., No:136, s.131

Read the original source accounts · 17 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 · 10 dated years

How to read the records

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