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Osman Fehmi Efendi

Birthplace: dersaadet Observed AH 1325

159-191-377Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Osman Fehmi Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1307. Recorded schooling includes 12 years at Darussafaka. First work is recorded in Sirkeci in AH 1325 (18 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with Muhabere Memuru in Manastir (400 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1307
  2. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 18 AH years
  3. AH 1325Birth-year difference: 18 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 3

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1325

Muhabere Memuru · manastir · 400 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1325 in sirkeci. The first-salary field is 300 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1325 · 1907 labelRecorded first-work anchorsirkeci
400 kuruş / month

AH 1325 · 1907 label

One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.

Places in this record

AH 1325 · 1907 labelRecorded first-work anchorsirkeci
sirkeci: Locality linkage; agreedsirkecimanastir: Locality linkage; agreedmanastir

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record
  • Locality record
  • 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
Darussafaka
Schooling duration
12 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
0 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
1
Father’s occupation
Esnaf
Recorded birth year
AH 1307
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 1325 · 1907 label
Place
sirkeci
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

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
French
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)

  • Communication and Telegraph
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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Download these additional source records (JSON)

Recorded fieldOriginal valueSource locator
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingCommunication and Telegraphseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 38441
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memur · currentjob
source lines 39715
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhabere Memurueda-memureski · currentjob
source lines 39715
Recorded source-year values: 1325
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65867
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39715
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39715
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39715
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 39715
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 65867
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38441
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1325 · AH
source lines 38441
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Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.

Every displayed annual entry. Select a year to inspect its salary, title, place and source together.
Source yearGregorian labelTitleLocality wordingMonthly kuruşSource line
1907Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memurumanastir400recovered
line 36280
  1. AH 1325 · 1907 label

    Muhabere Memuru

    Original title: muhabere memuru

    manastir

    400 kuruş / month

    recovered · source line 36280

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
Outside the paper sample
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

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.

About the edition, calendars and selection

FieldSource alternativesDisplay rule
telegraphSchool
1
recovered · telgraf · source lines 36280
0
september · telegraph_school · source lines 38441
1
older · telgraph_school · source lines 8477
All stored assertions retained. Names prefer September, then older; supplemental names fill only missing names. Other preferred attributes use recovered, then September, then older, with modal nonblank value and source-order tie break. This does not adjudicate historical truth or changes in coding.
All substantive source assertions (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1307recovered · dobirth
source lines 36280
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
source lines 36280
birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 36280
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 36280
schoolDarussafakarecovered · school_type
source lines 36280
schoolingYears12recovered · education_year
source lines 36280
schoolingYears12recovered · school_year
source lines 36280
apprenticeshipYears0recovered · mulazemet
source lines 36280
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 36280
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 36280
telegraphSchool1recovered · telgraf
source lines 36280
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 36280
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 36280
fatherJobEsnafrecovered · fatherjob
source lines 36280
fatherJobesnafrecovered · father_job
source lines 36280
firstWorkH1325recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 36280
firstWorkG1907recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 36280
firstWorkPlacesirkecirecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 36280
firstWorkSalary300recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 36280
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 36280
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 36280
nameOsman Fehmi Efendi september · İsim
source lines 38441
birthH1307september · dobirth
source lines 38441
birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
source lines 38441
birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
source lines 38441
schooldarussafakaseptember · school_type
source lines 38441
schoolingYears12september · education_year
source lines 38441
apprenticeshipYears0september · mulazemet
source lines 38441
apprenticeshipYears0september · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 38441
qualification1september · qualification
source lines 38441
telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
source lines 38441
religionmuslumanseptember · religion
source lines 38441
nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
source lines 38441
fatherJobesnafseptember · fatherjob
source lines 38441
firstWorkH1325september · firstjob_year
source lines 38441
firstWorkPlacesirkeciseptember · firstjob_place
source lines 38441
firstWorkSalary300september · firstjob_wage
source lines 38441
birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
source lines 38441
birthLongitude29.056960217582365september · lon_birth_place
source lines 38441
language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3september · lang_turkish2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
source lines 38441
language:FrenchKitabetseptember · lang_french
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:French2september · lang_french2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0september · lang_persian2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:English0september · lang_english2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0september · lang_italian2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0september · lang_armenian2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0september · lang_rum2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0september · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 38441
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0september · lang_russian2
source lines 38441
nameOsman Fehmi Efendi older · İsim
source lines 8477
birthH1307older · dobirth
source lines 8477
birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
source lines 8477
birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
source lines 8477
schooldarussafakaolder · school_type
source lines 8477
schoolingYears12older · education_year
source lines 8477
apprenticeshipYears0older · MülazemetSüresi
source lines 8477
qualification1older · qualification
source lines 8477
telegraphSchool1older · telgraph_school
source lines 8477
religionmuslumanolder · religion
source lines 8477
nationalityturkisholder · nationality
source lines 8477
fatherJobesnafolder · fatherjob
source lines 8477
firstWorkH1325older · firstjob_year
source lines 8477
firstWorkPlacesirkeciolder · firstjob_place
source lines 8477
firstWorkSalary300older · firstjob_wage
source lines 8477
birthLatitude41.08488985821407older · lat_birth_place
source lines 8477
birthLongitude29.056960217582365older · lon_birth_place
source lines 8477
language:TurkishKitabetolder · lang_turkish
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish3older · lang_turkish2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0older · lang_arabic2
source lines 8477
language:FrenchKitabetolder · lang_french
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:French2older · lang_french2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Persian0older · lang_persian2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:English0older · lang_english2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Italian0older · lang_italian2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian0older · lang_armenian2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Greek0older · lang_greek2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Rum0older · lang_rum2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian0older · lang_bulgarian2
source lines 8477
derivedLanguageCode:Russian0older · lang_russian2
source lines 8477

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, “Osman Fehmi Efendi”, archival reference 159-191-377, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-cb2ba30a878d8858/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-cb2ba30a878d8858/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.