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Ahmet Muhsin Efendi

0068_0187; 371Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Ahmet Muhsin Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1295. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1313 (18 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1313 and 1314; it begins with Sevk Kalemi in Dersaadet (300 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye NezâretiArchival reference as recorded: 0068_0187; 371

Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

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Honours, rank and legal records

Decoration wording is unrecorded in the linked text fields.

Sabıka / criminal records

Original wording and raw source values are not adjudicated findings or lifetime verdicts.

Legal wording, values and source locators
  • Original annual indicator value 0
    AH 1313–1314
    October personnel annual source · criminal · Any criminal record (1=yes)
    Source lines 38370, 40783

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli · Recorded source-year value: 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2 · Recorded source-year value: 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adli2y · Recorded source-year value: 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adlixx · Recorded source-year value: 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · adliy · Recorded source-year value: 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memur annual extract · criminal · AH 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1314
    Source lines 18272

Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1313
    Source lines 18271
  • Recorded code 0 · Older EDA memureski annual extract · criminal · AH 1314
    Source lines 18272

October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times

  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1313
    Source lines 38370
  • Recorded code 0 · October personnel annual source · criminal_record_times · AH 1314
    Source lines 40783

September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1313
    Source lines 18148
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · adlisicilkaydi · AH 1314
    Source lines 18149

September personnel source · criminal

  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1313
    Source lines 18148
  • Recorded code 0 · September personnel source · criminal · AH 1314
    Source lines 18149

Rank and honour codes

Original values across source assertions, including zero; meanings unverified. No grade, count or award status is inferred.

No honour or rank code assertion is linked in these additional sources.

About these sources

Life and career

2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1295
  2. AH 1313Birth-year difference: 18 AH years
  3. AH 1313–1314Birth-year difference: 18–19 AH years

Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.

2 of 4

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1313

Sevk Kalemi · dersaadet · 300 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1313 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 300 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1313 · 1895 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
0150300AH 1313AH 1314AH 1313 · 1895 label: 300 kuruş / month · Sevk Kalemi · dersaadetAH 1314 · 1896 label: 300 kuruş / month · Sevk Kalemi · dersaadet

Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.

Places in this record

AH 1313 · 1895 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1313 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadet

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record

Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.

How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries

AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.

Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0.5 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
imam
Recorded birth year
AH 1295
Religion wording
Musluman
Nationality wording
Turkish

Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1313 · 1895 label
Place
istanbul
First-salary field
300 kuruş
Source
recovered

The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.

Recorded language repertoire

1 field contains historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)

Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.

Additional source evidence

Occupation wording, status assertions and original records

Occupation wording and source categories

Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)

  • Postal Service

Current job titles in older EDA annual records

  • Sevk Kalemi
All additional source assertions, language notes and original codes

Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. This is separate from the annual data edition; the compact dossier PDF cites both editions.

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Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Original source assertionPostal Serviceseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
Source-year labels: 1313–1314
Source lines 18148, 18149
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionSevk Kalemieda-memur · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 18271, 18272
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsOriginal source assertionSevk Kalemieda-memureski · currentjob
Source-year labels:
Source lines 18271, 18272
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1313
Source lines 38370
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1314
Source lines 40783
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1313
Source lines 18271
adliOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli
Recorded source-year value: 1314
Source lines 18272
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1313
Source lines 18271
adli2Original source assertion0eda-memur · adli2
Recorded source-year value: 1314
Source lines 18272
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1313
Source lines 18271
adli2yOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adli2y
Recorded source-year value: 1314
Source lines 18272
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1313
Source lines 18271
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314
Source lines 18272
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1313
Source lines 18271
adlixxOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adlixx
Recorded source-year value: 1314
Source lines 18272
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1313
Source lines 18271
adliyOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · adliy
Recorded source-year value: 1314
Source lines 18272
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1313
Source lines 18271
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1314
Source lines 18272
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1313
Source lines 18271
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314
Source lines 18272
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1313
Source lines 18271
criminalOriginal source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1314
Source lines 18272
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1313
Source lines 38370
Criminal record (coded level)Original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1314
Source lines 40783
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1313
Source lines 18148
adlisicilkaydiOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314
Source lines 18149
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1313
Source lines 18148
criminalOriginal source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1314
Source lines 18149

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 2 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

How to read this dossier

The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.

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All substantive source assertions (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1295recovered · dobirth
source lines 16782, 16783
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
source lines 16782, 16783
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 16782, 16783
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 16782, 16783
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 16782, 16783
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 16782, 16783
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 16782, 16783
apprenticeshipYears0.5recovered · mulazemet
source lines 16782, 16783
qualification0recovered · qualification
source lines 16782, 16783
derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
source lines 16782, 16783
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 16782, 16783
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 16782, 16783
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 16782, 16783
fatherJobimamrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 16782, 16783
fatherJobimamrecovered · father_job
source lines 16782, 16783
firstWorkH1313recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 16782, 16783
firstWorkG1895recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 16782, 16783
firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 16782, 16783
firstWorkSalary300recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 16782, 16783
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 16782, 16783
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 16782, 16783
nameAhmet Muhsin Efendi september · İsim
source lines 18148, 18149
birthH1295september · dobirth
source lines 18148, 18149
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 18148, 18149
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 18148, 18149
schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
source lines 18148, 18149
schoolingYears7september · education_year
source lines 18148, 18149
apprenticeshipYears0.5september · mulazemet
source lines 18148, 18149
apprenticeshipYears0.5september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 18148, 18149
qualification0september · qualification
source lines 18148, 18149
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 18148, 18149
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 18148, 18149
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 18148, 18149
fatherJobimamseptember · fatherjob
source lines 18148, 18149
firstWorkH1313september · firstjob_year
source lines 18148, 18149
firstWorkPlaceistanbulseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 18148, 18149
firstWorkSalary300september · firstjob_wage
source lines 18148, 18149
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 18148, 18149
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 18148, 18149
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:French0september · lang_french2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 18148, 18149
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 18148, 18149
nameAhmet Muhsin Efendi older · İsim
source lines 34726, 36397
birthH1295older · dobirth
source lines 34726, 36397
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 34726, 36397
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 34726, 36397
schoolrusdiye mektebiolder · school_type
source lines 34726, 36397
schoolingYears7older · education_year
source lines 34726, 36397
apprenticeshipYears.5older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 34726, 36397
qualification0older · qualification
source lines 34726, 36397
telegraphSchool0older · telgraph_school
source lines 34726, 36397
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 34726, 36397
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 34726, 36397
fatherJobimamolder · fatherjob
source lines 34726, 36397
firstWorkH1313older · firstjob_year
source lines 34726, 36397
firstWorkPlaceistanbulolder · firstjob_place
source lines 34726, 36397
firstWorkSalary300older · firstjob_wage
source lines 34726, 36397
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 34726, 36397
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 34726, 36397
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:French0older · lang_french2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 34726, 36397
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 34726, 36397

Original stored values

These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.

Cite this record

Fatih Kansoy, Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Ahmet Muhsin Efendi”. BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 0068_0187; 371. Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis. Annual edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a; additional source edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-e57164ecd75cde91. https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-b7d8feea24918045/

BOA, DH.SAİD, Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterleri, Dahiliye Nezâreti. Archival reference as recorded: 0068_0187; 371
Collection identification and coded personnel records: Akyıldız (2024), Marmara University thesis.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-b7d8feea24918045/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.