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Mehmed Celaleddin Efendi

Born 1871/72 (AH 1288) · Kırşehir · Dated entries 1889 to 1899 (AH 1307 to 1316)

Languages Arabic, Persian, Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 95/153, s.153

The career, year by year

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

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.

1Kırşehir
● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 5 · Kırşehir

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.

  1. 1

    1871/72 (AH 1288)

    Kırşehir

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1889/90 (AH 1307)

    Kırşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Tahrirat kalemi mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Calculated age 19

      Recorded service ending

    2. Tahrirat mukayyid-i evveli

      150 kuruşCalculated age 19

  3. 3

    1892/93 (AH 1310) · 2 recorded years

    Kırşehir

    AH entries: 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.

    1. İdare meclisi başkitabeti vekili

      Calculated age 22

    2. Tahrirat kalemi müsevvid-i sanisi

      250 kuruşCalculated age 23

  4. 4

    1896/97 (AH 1314)

    Kırşehir

    1. Tahsil ve tahrirat kalemi müsevvid-i evveli

      350 kuruşCalculated age 26

  5. 5

    1898/99 (AH 1316)

    Kırşehir

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    1. Maarif ve inşaat komisyonları azası ile mülki müfettişlik (fahri) (İstifa)

      Calculated age 28

      Recorded service ending

    2. İstifa (İnfisal)

      Calculated age 28

    All 5 recorded entries in this stage →

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.

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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
1889/90 (AH 1307)150400130 to 1,50010.7%1874
1893/94 (AH 1311)250400140 to 1,40021.2%1929
1896/97 (AH 1314)350450150 to 1,57536.8%2119

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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. 1889 to 1899 (AH 1307 to 1316)

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. Kırşehir150 to 350

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. 1892/93 (AH 1310)
  2. 1893/94 (AH 1311)
  3. 1889/90 (AH 1307)
  4. 1898/99 (AH 1316)
  5. 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

Qualification Formal qualification recorded [source]

Schooling Kırşehir ibtidai mektebi; rüştiye mektebi [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Kırşehir doğumlu devlet adamları

    TÜLAY TERYAKİOĞLU · 2013 · Pages 130, 131

    115 BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 95/153, s.153.; BOA. DH. SAİD. d, nr. 95/153, s.153

Read the original source accounts · 14 source entries →

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 · 5 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 10 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

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