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Hüseyin Refîk Efendi

Born 1875/76 (AH 1292) · Çemişgezek · Dated entries 1895 to 1912 (AH 1313 to 1330)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH_SAİDd_____00196_00151

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

Follow 8 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.

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

Stage 1 of 8 · Çemişgezek

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

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Çemişgezek

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1895/96 (AH 1313)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 21

    2. Polis

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

  3. 3

    1896/97 (AH 1314) · 6 recorded years

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319. Gaps remain open.

    1. Polis

      300 kuruşCalculated age 22

      Continuing service as described

    2. Polis

      300 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    All 6 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Place not recorded / Evkaf kassamlık dairesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Evkaf kassamlık dairesi

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      Polis

      300 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evkaf kassamlık dairesi

      Evkaf kassamlık dairesi hademesi

      70 kuruşCalculated age 28

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1903/04 (AH 1321) · 6 recorded years

    Evkaf kassamlık dairesi

    AH entries: 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Evkaf kassamlık dairesi

    1. Evkaf kassamlık dairesi hademesi

      70 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

    2. Evkaf kassamlık dairesi hademesi

      100 kuruşCalculated age 34

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1910/11 (AH 1328)

    Place not recorded / Mahkeme-i Evkaf / İkinci daire-i vakfiye

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Mahkeme-i Evkaf; İkinci daire-i vakfiye

    1. Place not recorded

      Mazuliyet

      100 kuruşCalculated age 36

    2. İkinci daire-i vakfiye

      İkinci daire-i vakfiye tahsildarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 36

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  7. 7

    1911 (AH 1329)

    İkinci daire-i vakfiye / Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: İkinci daire-i vakfiye

    1. İkinci daire-i vakfiye

      İkinci daire-i vakfiye tahsildarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      İstanbul vilayeti evkaf tahsildarı

      500 kuruşCalculated age 37

  8. 8

    1911/12 (AH 1330)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. İstanbul vilayeti evkaf tahsildarı

      Calculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. İstanbul vilayeti evkaf tahsildarı

      300 kuruşCalculated age 38

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 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
1895/96 (AH 1313)300400140 to 1,50027.1%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)300450150 to 1,57526.4%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)300400140 to 1,42528.1%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)300400144 to 1,40027.7%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)300400140 to 1,44029.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)300400140 to 1,50029.1%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)300400150 to 1,52029.0%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)300400150 to 1,50028.8%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)70405150 to 1,4503.2%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)70400135 to 1,5003.3%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)70430125 to 1,5003.9%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)70450150 to 1,5253.3%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)80460135 to 1,6154.3%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)100400150 to 2,0003.2%1232
1910/11 (AH 1328)500500200 to 2,00044.6%732
1911 (AH 1329)500600250 to 2,50038.4%402
1911/12 (AH 1330)3001,000300 to 3,0009.9%233

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. 1895 to 1912 (AH 1313 to 1330)
  2. Evkaf kassamlık dairesi7
    1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  3. İkinci daire-i vakfiye2
    1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  4. Mahkeme-i Evkaf1
    1910/11 (AH 1328)

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. Evkaf kassamlık dairesi70 to 100
  2. İkinci daire-i vakfiye500

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. 1895 to 1903 (AH 1313 to 1320)
  2. 1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
  3. 1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
  4. 1911 to 1912 (AH 1329 to 1330)
  5. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
  6. 1902/03 (AH 1320)

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 İbtidai Mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre çemişgezekli devlet memurları

    YETER ÖZDEMİR BIYIK · 2024 · Pages 382, 383, 384, 385

    DH_SAİDd_____00196_00151; 440 DH_SAİDd_____00196_00151

Read the original source accounts · 29 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 · 17 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 27 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

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