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Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi

Born 1855/56 (AH 1272) · Sivas · Dated entries 1875 to 1897 (AH 1292 to 1314)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference DH.SAİD.d.nr.00034,s.261

The career, year by year

Read every year

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

1875/76 (AH 1292): telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç), Sivas1876/77 (AH 1293): telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç), Sivas1876/77 (AH 1293): telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç) (Nakil), Sivas1876/77 (AH 1293): telgraf muhabere memuru, Yıldızeli (Yenihan), 300 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305): Telgraf Memuru, Gercamiş, 380 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314): telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü, Pelemir, 500 kuruşAH 1292AH 1305AH 1314
Places and reading notes
  • Sivas
  • Yıldızeli (Yenihan)
  • Gercamiş
  • Pelemir

4 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

Follow 5 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.

1SivasYıldızeli (Yenihan)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Sivas

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

    1855/56 (AH 1272)

    Sivas

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Sivas Telgrafhanesi / Sivas

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Sivas Telgrafhanesi

    1. Sivas Telgrafhanesi

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 20

    2. Sivas

      telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç)

      Calculated age 20

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Sivas / Yıldızeli (Yenihan)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Sivas

      telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç)

      Calculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sivas

      telgrafhane hizmeti (başlangıç) (Nakil)

      Calculated age 21

      Recorded service ending

    3. Yıldızeli (Yenihan)

      telgraf muhabere memuru

      300 kuruşCalculated age 21

  4. 4

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Gercamiş

    Not yet located on the map: Gercamiş

    1. Telgraf Memuru

      380 kuruşCalculated age 33

  5. 5

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Pelemir

    Not yet located on the map: Pelemir

    1. telgraf ve posta merkez müdürü

      500 kuruşCalculated age 42

5 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
1876/77 (AH 1293)300420150 to 2,00030.1%1102
1887/88 (AH 1305)380400150 to 1,50042.5%1762
1896/97 (AH 1314)500450150 to 1,57552.8%2119

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts
02505001876/77AH 12931886/87AH 13041896/97AH 13141876/77 (AH 1293) · 300 kuruş1887/88 (AH 1305) · 380 kuruş1896/97 (AH 1314) · 500 kuruş

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. 1875 to 1877 (AH 1292 to 1293)
  2. Gercamiş1
    1887/88 (AH 1305)
  3. Pelemir1
    1896/97 (AH 1314)
  4. 1876/77 (AH 1293)

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. Gercamiş380
  2. Pelemir500

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. 1875 to 1877 (AH 1292 to 1293)
  2. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
  3. 1876/77 (AH 1293)
  4. 1896/97 (AH 1314)

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 Sivas sıbyan mektebi; Sivas rüştiye 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

Personal details

Birthplace
Sivas [source]
Birth province
Sivas [source]
Birth year
1855/56 (AH 1272) [source]
Father’s occupation
Esnaf [source]
Archive references
DH.SAİD.d.nr.00034,s.261 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sivas sıbyan mektebi; Sivas rüştiye mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
20 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Sivas Telgrafhanesi [source]
First work year
1875/76 (AH 1292) [source]

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Sivaslı devlet adamları

    NESLİHAN EROL · 2022 · Pages 193, 194

    336 DH.SAİD.d.nr.00034,s.261; DH.SAİD.d.nr.00034,s.261

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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 · 4 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 6 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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