Ali Zihni Efendi
Ali Zihni Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1305. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1321 (16 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1323 and 1324; it begins with Kontrol Kalemi in Istanbul (50 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1305
- AH 1321Birth-year difference: 16 AH years
- AH 1323–1324Birth-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.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHKontrol Kalemi · istanbul · 50 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 50 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
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
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
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.
Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes
Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.
Salary 50 to 100 kuruş +50 (+100%)
A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.
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.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 2 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Esnaf
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1305
- 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.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1321 · 1903 label
- Place
- istanbul
- First-salary field
- 50 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.
Further biographical evidence
Source wording and status assertions
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)
- Technical and Engineering
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes
These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.
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| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Technical and Engineering | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 37310, 37311 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Kontrol Kalemi | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 38548, 38549 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Kontrol Kalemi | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 38548, 38549 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 63369 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 64710 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 38548 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38549 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 38548 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38549 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 38548 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38549 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 38548 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38549 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 63369 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1324 · AH source lines 64710 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 37310 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 37311 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 37310 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 37311 |
Read the complete annual source table
Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | Kontrol KalemiOriginal: kontrol kalemi | istanbul | 50 | recovered line 34979 | |
| 1906 | Kontrol KalemiOriginal: kontrol kalemi | istanbul | 100 | recovered line 34980 |
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 · 1 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.
All substantive source assertions (80)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1305 | recovered · dobirth source lines 34979, 34980 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birthplace source lines 34979, 34980 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birth_place source lines 34979, 34980 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 34979, 34980 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 34979, 34980 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 34979, 34980 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 34979, 34980 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 34979, 34980 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 34979, 34980 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 34979, 34980 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 34979, 34980 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 34979, 34980 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 34979, 34980 |
| fatherJob | Esnaf | recovered · fatherjob source lines 34979, 34980 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | recovered · father_job source lines 34979, 34980 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 34979, 34980 |
| firstWorkG | 1903 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 34979, 34980 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 34979, 34980 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 34979, 34980 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 34979, 34980 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 34979, 34980 |
| name | Ali Zihni Efendi | september · İsim source lines 37310, 37311 |
| birthH | 1305 | september · dobirth source lines 37310, 37311 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | september · birthplace source lines 37310, 37311 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | september · birth_vilayet source lines 37310, 37311 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 37310, 37311 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 37310, 37311 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | september · mulazemet source lines 37310, 37311 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 37310, 37311 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 37310, 37311 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 37310, 37311 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 37310, 37311 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 37310, 37311 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | september · fatherjob source lines 37310, 37311 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | september · firstjob_year source lines 37310, 37311 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | september · firstjob_place source lines 37310, 37311 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 37310, 37311 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 37310, 37311 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 37310, 37311 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 37310, 37311 |
| name | Ali Zihni Efendi | older · İsim source lines 13015, 16599 |
| birthH | 1305 | older · dobirth source lines 13015, 16599 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | older · birthplace source lines 13015, 16599 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | older · birth_vilayet source lines 13015, 16599 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 13015, 16599 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 13015, 16599 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 2 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 13015, 16599 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 13015, 16599 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 13015, 16599 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 13015, 16599 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 13015, 16599 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | older · fatherjob source lines 13015, 16599 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | older · firstjob_year source lines 13015, 16599 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | older · firstjob_place source lines 13015, 16599 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 13015, 16599 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 13015, 16599 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 13015, 16599 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 13015, 16599 |
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
Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Ali Zihni Efendi”, archival reference 148-174-343, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-c3eb46f048d9f4d2/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-c3eb46f048d9f4d2/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.