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İbrahim Edhem Efendi

Born 1885/86 (AH 1303) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1900 to 1910 (AH 1318 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1077

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1Istanbul (Dersaadet)
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 6 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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  1. 1

    1885/86 (AH 1303)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet)

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1900/01 (AH 1318)

    Istanbul (Dersaadet) / Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul

    1. Istanbul (Dersaadet)

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul

      Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 15

    All 4 recorded entries in this stage →

  3. 3

    1901/02 (AH 1319)

    Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul / Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul; Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

    1. Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul

      Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi kâtibi

      150 kuruşCalculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 16

  4. 4

    1902/03 (AH 1320) · 6 recorded years

    Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

    AH entries: 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

    1. Mabeyn-i Hümayun memuru

      1,000 kuruşCalculated age 17

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mabeyn-i Hümayun memuru

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 22

    All 8 recorded entries in this stage →

  5. 5

    1908/09 (AH 1326)

    Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul / Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul; Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul

    1. Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun memuru

      2,000 kuruşCalculated age 23

      Continuing service as described

    2. Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul

      Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi memuru

      Calculated age 23

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  6. 6

    1909/10 (AH 1327)

    Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul / Place not recorded

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul; Location not recorded

    1. Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul

      Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi memuru

      Calculated age 24

      Continuing service as described

    2. Place not recorded

      Infisal

      Calculated age 24

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.

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Current collection salary comparison

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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.

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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
1900/01 (AH 1318)150400140 to 1,50010.3%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)1,000400150 to 1,52080.1%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)1,000400150 to 1,50081.9%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)1,000405150 to 1,45081.4%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)1,000400135 to 1,50081.7%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)1,000430125 to 1,50080.5%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)1,000450150 to 1,52578.0%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)2,000460135 to 1,61591.9%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)2,000400150 to 2,00090.0%1232

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul8
    1901 to 1909 (AH 1319 to 1326)
  2. Hazine-i Hassa Tahrirat Kalemi, İstanbul2
    1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  3. Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul2
    1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)

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. Mabeyn-i Hümayun, İstanbul1,000 to 2,000
  2. Hazine-i Hassa, Emlak-ı Hümayun Birinci Şubesi, İstanbul100 to 150

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. 1901 to 1909 (AH 1319 to 1326)
  2. 1900 to 1902 (AH 1318 to 1319)
  3. 1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
  5. 1908/09 (AH 1326)

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Related officials in the salary reference

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi [1]

Schooling Mahallî İbtidai Mektebi; Beşiktaş Mülki Rüşdiyesi [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

Sources and evidence

  1. 3 Numaralı Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Hazîne-i Hâssa'da görev yapan memurlar

    ÜLKÜ ZÜLAL UYANIK · 2024 · Pages 166, 167

    BOA, HH.SAİD, Defter No: 3, s.1077

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 10 dated AH years

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