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Hamamcıyan Agob Efendi

Born 1855/56 (AH 1272) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1881 to 1914 (AH 1299 to 1332)

Languages Armenian, English, French, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAİD 62/391

The career, year by year

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

Follow 11 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.

1Istanbul (Dersaadet)ErzurumKayseriMuşGençDiyarbakır
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 11 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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

    1855/56 (AH 1272)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1881/82 (AH 1299)

    Erzurum

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 27

    2. Hazine dava vekili

      Calculated age 27

  3. 3

    1882/83 (AH 1300) · 11 recorded years

    Erzurum

    AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Hazine dava vekili

      Calculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine dava vekili (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 38

      Recorded service ending

    All 12 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Erzurum

    1. İmar komisyonu azası

      Calculated age 41

  5. 5

    1897/98 (AH 1315)

    Kayseri

    1. Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 43

  6. 6

    1898/99 (AH 1316) · 2 recorded years

    Muş

    AH entries: 1316, 1317. Gaps remain open.

    1. Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 44

    2. Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 45

  7. 7

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Muş / Genç

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Muş

      Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 46

      Continuing service as described

    2. Muş

      Mutasarrıf muavini (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 46

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  8. 8

    1901/02 (AH 1319) · 3 recorded years

    Genç

    AH entries: 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Mutasarrıf muavini

      2,250 kuruşCalculated age 47

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mutasarrıf muavini (Azil)

      Calculated age 49

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  9. 9

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Diyarbakır / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Diyarbakır

      Vali Muavini

      4,500 kuruşCalculated age 55

    2. Place not recorded

      Mazuliyet

      1,250 kuruşCalculated age 55

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  10. 10

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Place not recorded

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Mazuliyet

      1,875 kuruşCalculated age 56

  11. 11

    1911/12 (AH 1330) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1330, 1331, 1332. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Sicill-i Ahvâl İdare-i Umumiyesi müdürü

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 58

    2. İkinci sınıf mülkiye müfettişi

      4,000 kuruşCalculated age 60

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

2 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. 1881 to 1896 (AH 1299 to 1313)
  2. 1900 to 1904 (AH 1318 to 1321)
  3. 1898 to 1901 (AH 1316 to 1318)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  5. 1897/98 (AH 1315)

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. Genç2,250
  2. Muş2,250
  3. Diyarbakır3,500 to 4,500
  4. Kayseri2,250

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. 1881 to 1893 (AH 1299 to 1310)
  2. 1897 to 1904 (AH 1315 to 1321)
  3. 1911 to 1914 (AH 1330 to 1332)
  4. 1911/12 (AH 1330)
  5. 1913/14 (AH 1332)
  6. 1895/96 (AH 1313)

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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; İkinci sınıf dava vekâleti ruhsatnamesi [1]

Schooling Samatya Ermeni Kilise Mektebi; İngiltere’de okul; Mekteb-i Sultani bünyesindeki Hukuk Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre İstanbul doğumlu Ermeni devlet adamları

    HARUN TUNCA · 2016 · Pages 154, 155, 156, 157, 158

    DH. SAİD 62/391; 21 Şubat 1914193 DH. SAİD 62/391 5. 85. HAMPARSOM EKNA EFENDİ Osmanlı Devleti’nin Ermeni milletinden Hamparsam Efendi. Esnaftan Ekna Makasdar Ağa’nın oğludur. H.1264 (Haziran 1848) tarihinde İstanbul'da doğmuştur. Ermeni mektebindeki dersleri okumuştur. Türkçe, Ermenice ve Fransızca okuryazar.

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 25 dated years

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