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Mehmet Zühtü Efendi

Born 1857/58 (AH 1274) · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) · Dated entries 1873 to 1898 (AH 1290 to 1315)

Languages Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 100/431

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1Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)Saimbeyli (Haçin)SungurluAlucra
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Stage 1 of 9 · Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

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  1. 1

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1873/74 (AH 1290)

    Saimbeyli (Haçin)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 16

    2. Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

  3. 3

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Saimbeyli (Haçin) / Sungurlu

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Saimbeyli (Haçin)

      Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı (Nakil)

      Calculated age 17

      Recorded service ending

    2. Sungurlu

      Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı

      Calculated age 17

  4. 4

    1878/79 (AH 1296) · 4 recorded years

    Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

    AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Bidayet Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi zabıt kâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

    2. İdare Meclisi başkâtibi

      300 kuruşCalculated age 25

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  5. 5

    1882/83 (AH 1300)

    Alucra

    1. Kaymakam vekili

      473 kuruşCalculated age 26

  6. 6

    1. İdare Meclisi başkâtibi

      Calculated age 27

  7. 7

    1884/85 (AH 1302)

    Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

      İdare Meclisi başkâtibi

      Calculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      İzin (İstanbul) (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

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  8. 8

    1886/87 (AH 1304) · 10 recorded years

    Şebinkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Şarki)

    AH entries: 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Meclis-i İdare-i Liva savcısı (fahri)

      Calculated age 30

    2. Tahrirat Müdür vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 39

      Recorded service ending

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  9. 9

    1. Tahrirat Müdür vekili

      Calculated age 41

2 entries without a resolved year

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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
1878/79 (AH 1296)300400150 to 2,00027.9%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)300400180 to 1,80027.1%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)300400160 to 1,50028.8%1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)300400150 to 1,50028.0%1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)473400150 to 1,40058.4%1655
1889/90 (AH 1307)350400130 to 1,50040.1%1874

Career patterns and pay

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. 1878 to 1898 (AH 1296 to 1315)
  2. 1882/83 (AH 1300)
  3. 1873/74 (AH 1290)
  4. 1874/75 (AH 1291)

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Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title
  1. 1886 to 1894 (AH 1304 to 1311)
  2. 1878 to 1882 (AH 1296 to 1299)
  3. 1881 to 1890 (AH 1299 to 1307)
  4. 1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)
  5. 1873 to 1875 (AH 1290 to 1291)
  6. 1884/85 (AH 1302)

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Education and personal record

Schooling İptidai; Rüşdiye; özel hoca [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

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Sources and evidence

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

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 122, 123

    BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 100/431; 373 BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 100/431.; BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 100/431

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 20 dated AH years

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