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Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi

Born 1868/69 (AH 1285) · Kızılcaviran köyü · Dated entries 1889 to 1908 (AH 1307 to 1325)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 21/387

The career, year by year

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

Follow 6 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.

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Stage 1 of 6 · Kızılcaviran köyü

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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.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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

  1. 1

    1868/69 (AH 1285)

    Kızılcaviran köyü

    Not yet located on the map: Kızılcaviran köyü

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307) · 15 recorded years

    Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi

    AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi

    1. Kâtip

      250 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. Kâtip

      570 kuruşCalculated age 36

      Continuing service as described

    All 22 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi / Nüfus Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi; Nüfus Kalemi

    1. Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi

      Kâtip

      570 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Nüfus Kalemi

      başkâtip muavini

      650 kuruşCalculated age 37

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1905/06 (AH 1323)

    Nüfus Kalemi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Nüfus Kalemi

    1. başkâtip muavini

      650 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. başkâtip muavini

      700 kuruşCalculated age 38

  5. 5

    1906/07 (AH 1324)

    Nüfus Kalemi / 8. ve 9. Tahrir-i Nüfus daireleri / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Nüfus Kalemi; 8. ve 9. Tahrir-i Nüfus daireleri; Location not recorded

    1. Nüfus Kalemi

      başkâtip muavini

      700 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      başkâtip muavini (maaş)

      780 kuruşCalculated age 39

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1907/08 (AH 1325)

    Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. başkâtip muavini (maaş)

      780 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

    2. başkâtip muavini (maaş)

      940 kuruşCalculated age 40

    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.

  • mülazım (kalem) · Dahiliye Nezareti Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
  • First work as recorded · Dahiliye Nezareti Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi · Year not recorded

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.

View the yearly values
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
1889/90 (AH 1307)250400130 to 1,50021.3%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)250400125 to 1,50021.5%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)250400140 to 1,60021.3%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)300400135 to 1,50028.0%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)325400140 to 1,40038.2%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)400400140 to 1,50044.9%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)480400140 to 1,50054.8%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)500400140 to 1,42556.9%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)500400144 to 1,40055.8%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)500400140 to 1,44055.3%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)500400140 to 1,50055.5%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)570400150 to 1,52065.6%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)570400150 to 1,50067.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)570405150 to 1,45066.3%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)650400135 to 1,50070.8%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)700430125 to 1,50070.3%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)780450150 to 1,52572.1%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)940460135 to 1,61576.8%1290

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. Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi16
    1889 to 1905 (AH 1307 to 1322)
  2. Nüfus Kalemi3
    1904 to 1907 (AH 1322 to 1324)
  3. 8. ve 9. Tahrir-i Nüfus daireleri1
    1906/07 (AH 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. Nüfus-ı Umumiye Kalemi250 to 620
  2. Nüfus Kalemi620 to 700

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. 1889 to 1905 (AH 1307 to 1322)
  2. 1904 to 1907 (AH 1322 to 1324)
  3. 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)
  4. 1906/07 (AH 1324)

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 Sıbyan Mektebi; özel hoca [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 109, 110

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 21/387; 348 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 21/387.

Read the original source accounts · 38 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 · 19 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 37 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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