Süleyman Hayri Efendi

Born 1845 (AH 1261) · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Dated entries 1860 to 1886 (AH 1277 to 1303)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00004 /00055

The career, year by year

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The life

Süleyman Hayri Efendi was born in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) in 1845 (AH 1261), within the İslam community. The father’s occupation was Tüccar. Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi; medrese; özel hoca. The language repertoire included Arabic and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) in 1860/61 (AH 1277). Dated career entries span 1860/61 (AH 1277) to 1885/86 (AH 1303) across 21 AH years, from Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) to Lazistan, beginning with Tahrirat kalemi devamı. More than one post or place appears in 4 of those years. Place names include Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), İstanbul, Zeytinburnu Fabrikası, Istanbul (Dersaadet) and Karamürsel and 8 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 250 kuruş in 1863/64 (AH 1280) to 2,500 kuruş in 1881/82 (AH 1299); the highest recorded monthly rate is 2,500 kuruş in 1879/80 (AH 1297).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · 1845 (AH 1261)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Tüccar^[source]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; medrese; özel hoca^[source]
First work: 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)^[source]
Age at first work: 16^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.

Career in numbers

21
Dated AH years: 14
Career place names: 5
Entries without a resolved year: 14
Salary years: 250 → 2,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 2,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 94.4%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1863/64 (AH 1280) to 1881/82 (AH 1299); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1879/80 (AH 1297)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1881/82 (AH 1299).

Life and career

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Follow 14 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 14 · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

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1
1845 (AH 1261)
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1860/61 (AH 1277)
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 16
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Tahrirat kalemi devamı
  Calculated age 16
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1861/62 (AH 1278) · 6 recorded years
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)
AH entries: 1278, 1279, 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Tahrirat kalemi devamı
  Calculated age 17
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Cinayet mahkemesi kâtibi
  430 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 7 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1869/70 (AH 1286)
İstanbul, Zeytinburnu Fabrikası / Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Karamürsel
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İstanbul, Zeytinburnu Fabrikası
1. İstanbul, Zeytinburnu Fabrikası
  Fabrika tahrirat kitâbeti refakati
  400 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Karamürsel
  Tahrirat kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Adapazarı
1. Tahrirat kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1871/72 (AH 1288) · 2 recorded years
İzmit
AH entries: 1288, 1289. Gaps remain open.
1. Belediye kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Defter-i Hakanî memuru
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1873/74 (AH 1290)
Benghazi (Bingazi)
1. Defter-i Hakanî memuru
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1876/77 (AH 1293)
Suriye
Not yet located on the map: Suriye
1. Defter-i Hakanî memuru
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Suriye / Belka
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Suriye; Belka
1. Suriye
  Defter-i Hakanî memuru
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Belka
  Defter-i Hakanî memuru
  Calculated age 33
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Basra / Suriye
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Suriye
1. Basra
  Defter-i Hakanî memuru (Azil)
  Calculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Suriye
  Defter-i Hakanî müfettiş muavini
  2,500 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1880/81 (AH 1298) · 2 recorded years
Suriye
AH entries: 1298, 1299. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Suriye
1. Defter-i Hakanî müfettiş muavini
  2,500 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Defter-i Hakanî müfettiş muavini (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
12
1882/83 (AH 1300) · 2 recorded years
Kastamonu
AH entries: 1300, 1301. Gaps remain open.
1. Merkez sertahsildarı
  Calculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Merkez sertahsildarı
  Calculated age 40
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
13
1884/85 (AH 1302)
Kastamonu / Elazığ / Lazistan
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Lazistan
1. Kastamonu
  Merkez sertahsildarı
  Calculated age 41
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Lazistan
  Sertahsildar
  Calculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
14
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Lazistan
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Lazistan
1. Sertahsildar
  Calculated age 42
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sertahsildar (İstifa)
  Calculated age 42
  Entry & evidence →[1]

5 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.

Tahrirat kâtibi · Sandıklı · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Tahrirat kâtibi (İstifa) · Sandıklı · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Defter-i Hakanî başkâtibi · İzmit · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Defter-i Hakanî memuru (İstifa) · Benghazi (Bingazi) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Defter-i Hakanî memuru · Basra · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]

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

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Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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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.

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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 year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1863/64 (AH 1280)	250	475	125 to 3,000	27.3%	232
1864/65 (AH 1281)	250	400	125 to 3,000	27.0%	253
1865/66 (AH 1282)	250	400	150 to 2,000	22.7%	341
1866/67 (AH 1283)	430	400	146 to 2,000	51.8%	399
1869/70 (AH 1286)	800	400	150 to 2,250	72.0%	609
1870/71 (AH 1287)	500	400	150 to 2,000	54.9%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	400	420.5	125 to 2,375	42.9%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	1,000	450	140 to 2,350	76.5%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	2,000	405	130 to 2,200	88.9%	805
1876/77 (AH 1293)	1,000	420	150 to 2,000	77.9%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	1,000	450	150 to 1,800	77.9%	1160
1879/80 (AH 1297)	2,500	400	180 to 1,800	92.9%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	2,500	400	160 to 1,500	95.0%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	2,500	400	150 to 1,500	94.4%	1489

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)7
1860 to 1867 (AH 1277 to 1283)
Suriye5
1876 to 1882 (AH 1293 to 1299)
Kastamonu3
1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
İzmit2
1871 to 1873 (AH 1288 to 1289)
Lazistan2
1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)
Adapazarı1
1870/71 (AH 1287)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)250 to 430
Suriye1,000 to 2,500
İzmit400 to 1,000
Adapazarı500
Benghazi (Bingazi)2,000
Istanbul (Dersaadet)800

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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

Defter-i Hakanî memuru4
1872 to 1878 (AH 1289 to 1294)
Defter-i Hakanî müfettiş muavini3
1879 to 1882 (AH 1297 to 1299)
Kapualtı tahsilat kâtibi3
1863 to 1866 (AH 1280 to 1282)
Merkez sertahsildarı3
1882 to 1885 (AH 1300 to 1302)
Tahrirat kalemi devamı3
1860 to 1863 (AH 1277 to 1279)
Sertahsildar2
1884 to 1886 (AH 1302 to 1303)

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

Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)124 other officialsEyüp Sâdık Efendi born 1845 (AH 1261); highest salary 500 kuruş
Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)3 other officialsHacı Ahmed Rifat Efendi 7 shared years; highest salary 475 kuruş
1860/61 (AH 1277)37 other officialsHacı Ahmed Rifat Efendi first entry in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib); highest salary 475 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; medrese; özel hoca^[source]

Qualification Mukaddime-i ulûm; Arapça ve Farsça tahsili^[1]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · mümkün mertebe tekellüm^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbet^[source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 0 (recorded code)^[source]
Judicial record as worded: 0 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları
İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 55, 56, 57
BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00004 /00055.

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