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Eşref Hıfzı Efendi

Born 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Taşköprü · Dated entries 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d., 111/247

The career, year by year

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

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1TaşköprüPetrich (Petriç)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Taşköprü

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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

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Taşköprü

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1902/03 (AH 1320)

    Gorema

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gorema

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. Gorema nahiyesi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 26

  3. 3

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Gorema

    Not yet located on the map: Gorema

    1. Gorema nahiyesi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Reconstructed year between matching entries

  4. 4

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Gorema / Petrich (Petriç) / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gorema; Location not recorded

    1. Gorema

      Gorema nahiyesi müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 28

    2. Place not recorded

      İstifa

      Calculated age 28

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

14 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 from AH year labels. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

Salary comparison sample

Post and Telegraph and cross-ministry annual records; not the whole bureaucracy.

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Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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● 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. Gorema3
    1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)
  2. 1904/05 (AH 1322)

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. Gorema250 to 500

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. 1902 to 1905 (AH 1320 to 1322)
  2. 1904/05 (AH 1322)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şahadetnamesi: aliyyü’l-âlâ; Mülkiye İdadisi şahadetnamesi: karîb-i âlâ [1]

Schooling Taşköprü sıbyan ve rüşdiye mektepleri; medrese; İstanbul Mülkiye İdadisi; Mekteb-i Hukuk-ı Şahane [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar [1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Taşköprülü memurlar

    VİLDAN ŞAHİN · 2023 · Pages 91, 92, 93, 94

    BOA. DH. SAİD. d., 111/247; 75 BOA. DH. SAİD. d., 111/247.

Read the original source accounts · 26 source entries →

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 3 dated years

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