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School

Mahrec-i Aklam

Group of schools: Higher or professional

Stored spellings: Mahrec-i Aklam; mahrec-i aklam

1 official has Mahrec-i Aklam recorded as school. The annual entries of this official, 9 in all, run from 1874 to 1882 (AH 1291 to 1299). The median of the 9 recorded monthly salaries is 200 kuruş, against 535 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years.

Officials
1
Years on recordAH 1291 to 1299, 9 years with an entry
1874 to 1882
Median monthly salaryfrom 9 recorded salaries
200 kuruş
Places with officials
1

Profile of the group: Higher or professional

No source read describes Mahrec-i Aklam by itself, so this is the profile of its group of schools.

Schools above the secondary level or for a profession. The state founded such schools to train its officials: the Mekteb-i Maarif-i Adliye of 1839, the School of Civil Administration (Mülkiye) of 1859, the Galatasaray lycée of 1868, and the telegraph schools of the Post and Telegraph administration.

Standing and pay of its pupils

In the paper's grouping attendance at a higher school, or a completed idadi, is the highest level of schooling.

Sources

  1. Akyıldız, Ali (2019). Mekteb-i Maârif-i Adliyye. TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, supplement vol. 2 (revised third printing), 236-238. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 236. Used for: summary.
  2. Findley, Carter V. (1980). Bureaucratic Reform in the Ottoman Empire: The Sublime Porte, 1789-1922. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Pages or part: 159. Used for: summary.
  3. The school and the office: training, entry and pay in the Ottoman Post and Telegraph service, 1870-1905. Working paper, 2026 (the paper behind this collection; its Section II reports Akyıldız 2024, Ata 2022 and Ayhan and Maviş 1994).Pages or part: Sections II and III. Used for: summary, standing and pay of its pupils.

Schooling, first pay and careers

What the records say about the 1 official with this school.

Years of schooling recorded
9.0 yearsmean 9.0; 1 official with years; all schooling up to this school, not the years spent in it

Where the school was

1 official of 1 give a place for this school. Places are worded by the officials. A place of the catalogue is named only when exactly one place has the same spelling, so it is a probable link, not a certain one.

Places given for Mahrec-i Aklam
Place as the record words itPlace of the catalogue (probable)Officials
FatihFatih1

Places

Places of Mahrec-i Aklam, the place with most officials first
PlaceProvinceOfficialsAnnual entriesYears
Istanbul (Dersaadet)Istanbul (Dersaadet) province191874 to 1882

Ottoman officials recorded

Officials of Mahrec-i Aklam
OfficialYearsAnnual entriesMain titleKuruş a monthBirthplace
Hasan Azmi Efendi1874 to 18829Kontrol Kalemicontrol office150 to 250Istanbul (Dersaadet)

How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.