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Ömer Lütfi Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) · Dated entries 1875 to 1905 (AH 1292 to 1322)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00054 /00239

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1Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)BursaRuse (Rusçuk)BaruthaneKırklareliAz Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)Sana'a (Sana)Bajil (Bacil)LiceTarsusTyre (Sur)Malatya
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 20 · Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib)

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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.

3 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

  1. 1

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1875/76 (AH 1292)

    Bursa

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. First work as recorded

      Calculated age 15

    2. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 15

  3. 3

    1876/77 (AH 1293)

    Bursa

    1. Telgrafhane mülazımı

      Calculated age 16

      Continuing service as described

  4. 4

    1877/78 (AH 1294)

    Ruse (Rusçuk) / Baruthane

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Ruse (Rusçuk)

      Muvakkat muhabere memuru

      500 kuruşCalculated age 17

    2. Baruthane

      Muvakkat muhabere memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 17

  5. 5

    1878/79 (AH 1296)

    Kırklareli

    1. Muvakkat muhabere memuru

      600 kuruşCalculated age 19

  6. 6

    1879/80 (AH 1297)

    Kırklareli / Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Kırklareli

      Muvakkat muhabere memuru (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 20

    2. Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)

      Muhabere Memuru

      712 kuruşCalculated age 20

  7. 7

    1880/81 (AH 1298)

    Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye) / Sana'a (Sana)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)

      Muhabere Memuru

      712 kuruşCalculated age 21

      Continuing service as described

    2. Sana'a (Sana)

      Muhabere Memuru

      800 kuruşCalculated age 21

  8. 8

    1885/86 (AH 1303) · 2 recorded years

    Zaha

    AH entries: 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Zaha

    1. Telgraf Müdürü

      950 kuruşCalculated age 26

    2. Telgraf Müdürü

      950 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

  9. 9

    1887/88 (AH 1305)

    Zaha / Bajil (Bacil)

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Zaha

    1. Zaha

      Telgraf Müdürü

      950 kuruşCalculated age 28

      Continuing service as described

    2. Bajil (Bacil)

      Telgraf Müdürü

      950 kuruşCalculated age 28

  10. 10

    1888/89 (AH 1306)

    Bajil (Bacil)

    1. Telgraf Müdürü

      950 kuruşCalculated age 29

      Continuing service as described

  11. 11

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)

    1. Telgraf Müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 30

  12. 12

    1890/91 (AH 1308)

    Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye) / Münaha

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Münaha

    1. Az Zaydiyah (Zeydiye)

      Telgraf Müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 31

      Continuing service as described

    2. Münaha

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 31

  13. 13

    1891/92 (AH 1309)

    Münaha / Lice

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Münaha

    1. Münaha

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 32

      Continuing service as described

    2. Lice

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 32

  14. 14

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 2 recorded years

    Lice

    AH entries: 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 33

      Continuing service as described

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      1,200 kuruşCalculated age 34

      Continuing service as described

  15. 15

    1894/95 (AH 1312) · 4 recorded years

    Tarsus

    AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      800 kuruşCalculated age 35

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      720 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

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  16. 16

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Tarsus / Beytüllahm

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Beytüllahm

    1. Tarsus

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      720 kuruşCalculated age 39

      Continuing service as described

    2. Beytüllahm

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      700 kuruşCalculated age 39

  17. 17

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Beytüllahm

    Not yet located on the map: Beytüllahm

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      700 kuruşCalculated age 40

      Continuing service as described

  18. 18

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 3 recorded years

    Place not recorded

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      675 kuruşCalculated age 41

    2. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      675 kuruşCalculated age 43

      Continuing service as described

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

  19. 19

    1903/04 (AH 1321)

    Tyre (Sur)

    1. Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      675 kuruşCalculated age 44

  20. 20

    1904/05 (AH 1322)

    Tyre (Sur) / Malatya

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tyre (Sur)

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      675 kuruşCalculated age 45

      Continuing service as described

    2. Malatya

      Telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü

      720 kuruşCalculated age 45

3 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

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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.

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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
1877/78 (AH 1294)600450150 to 1,80063.8%1160
1878/79 (AH 1296)600400150 to 2,00063.5%1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)712400180 to 1,80072.7%1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)800400160 to 1,50077.8%1448
1885/86 (AH 1303)950400150 to 1,50079.8%1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)950400150 to 1,50079.6%1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)950400150 to 1,50078.5%1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)950400135 to 1,50079.8%1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)1,200400130 to 1,50084.8%1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)1,200400125 to 1,50083.4%1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)1,200400140 to 1,60083.5%1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)1,200400135 to 1,50085.1%1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)1,200400140 to 1,40085.6%1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)800400140 to 1,50076.6%2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)800400140 to 1,50075.9%1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)720450150 to 1,57572.5%2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)720400140 to 1,42576.7%1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)720400144 to 1,40076.1%1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)700400140 to 1,44073.6%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)675400140 to 1,50072.7%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)675400150 to 1,52071.1%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)675400150 to 1,50072.1%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)675405150 to 1,45071.5%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)720400135 to 1,50073.7%1493

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. 1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)
  2. 1879 to 1891 (AH 1297 to 1308)
  3. 1891 to 1894 (AH 1309 to 1311)
  4. Zaha3
    1885 to 1888 (AH 1303 to 1305)
  5. 1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
  6. Beytüllahm2
    1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)

The six most recorded places. 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. Tarsus720 to 800
  3. Lice1,200
  4. Zaha950
  6. Beytüllahm700

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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. 1890 to 1905 (AH 1308 to 1322)
  2. 1885 to 1891 (AH 1303 to 1308)
  3. 1879 to 1881 (AH 1297 to 1298)
  4. 1877 to 1879 (AH 1294 to 1296)
  5. 1875 to 1877 (AH 1292 to 1293)

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

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Rüşdiye [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. Sicili Ahval Defterlerine göre Afyonlu devlet adamları

    İPEK KÜLTEKİN · 2021 · Pages 67, 68

    ²⁴ BOA, DH. SAİD.d, 00054 /00239. 27

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 26 dated AH years

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