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Hâfız Osman Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Kemaliye (Eğin) · Dated entries 1890 to 1892 (AH 1308 to 1309)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 26/59

The career, year by year

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

1890/91 (AH 1308): Azil, place unspecified1891/92 (AH 1309): Muddei Umumi Muavini, Şehr-i Zor Sancağı, 1,400 kuruşAH 1308AH 1309
Places and reading notes
  • Şehr-i Zor Sancağı

2 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

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Kemaliye (Eğin)
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 2 · Place not recorded

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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.

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

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    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Place not recorded

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    1. Azil

  2. 2

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Şehr-i Zor Sancağı

    Not yet located on the map: Şehr-i Zor Sancağı

    1. Muddei Umumi Muavini

      1,400 kuruş

8 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
07001,4001891/92AH 13091891/92 (AH 1309) · 1,400 kuruş

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● 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. Şehr-i Zor Sancağı1
    1891/92 (AH 1309)

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. Şehr-i Zor Sancağı1,400

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. 1891/92 (AH 1309)

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; Mekteb-i Hukuk âlâ derece şehadetnâme [1]

Schooling Eğin Rüşdiye Mektebi; Fatih Medresesi; Mekteb-i Hukuk [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

Personal details

Birthplace
Kemaliye [source]Eğin [1]
Father’s occupation
Kereste tüccarı [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 26/59 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Aşina [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Qualification
Formal qualification recorded [source]Mekteb-i Hukuk âlâ derece şehadetnâme [1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education
Eğin Rüşdiye Mektebi; Fatih Medresesi; Mekteb-i Hukuk [source]

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Kırkkilise Sancağı [source]
First-salary field
500 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Eğinli (Kemaliyeli) Devlet adamları (1820?1854)

    ÖMER FERİT İMLAK · 2012 · Pages 104, 105

    177 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 26/59.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 26/59.

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 · 2 dated years

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