Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 04.05.1969 (Creation)
- 11.01.1796 (Creation)
Level of description
Extent and medium
A total of 3328 documents were classified in 26 boxes and 1729 files. 2533 documents, 218 telegrams, 6 certificates, 21 printed papers, 13 newspapers, 160 newspaper clippings, 4 maps, 8 photographs, 2 notebooks, 262 French documents (handwritten, typed, printed), 30 book(let).
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha (September 1855, Midilli - April 1923, Vienna) was an Ottoman statesman and bureaucrat who served as Grand Vizier for two terms. He served as grand vizier during the reign of Abdülhamid II (14 February 1909 - 13 April 1909) and during the reign of Mehmed V (5 May 1909 - 28 December 1909) for a total of approximately 10 months. He spent his most influential and productive years as the Rumelia General Inspector in Vilayet-i Selase, which included the provinces of Thessaloniki, Kosovo and Bitola, and he was mostly known for this duty. After the proclamation of the Constitutional Monarchy II, he served as the Minister of Internal Affairs in the cabinet of Kâmil Pasha on 27 November 1908. Finally, he was appointed as the Ambassador to Vienna in 1912, a post he held until 1918. After the end of his ambassadorship, he did not return to the Ottoman lands and died in Vienna in 1923.
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha started his civil service career in 1874 at the Tahrirat Kalemi in Lesbos, where he was born, and the important duties in his career are as follows chronologically:
1881 - Midilli Tahrirat Kalemi mukayyit and manager
1883 - Aydın Postmaster
1885 - Syria Correspondent
1891 - Administration of the Sultan's farms in Burdur
1893 - Governor of Mersin
1893 - Mutasarrif of Maan
1897 - Nablus and Sulaymaniyah mutasarrifliks
1897 - Governor of Adana
1898-1902 - Governor of Yemen
2 December 1902 - 23 July 1908 - General Inspectorate of Rumelia in Vilayet-i Selâse
27 November 1908 - Ministry of Interior
13 February 1909 - 13 April 1909 - Grand Vizier
5 May 1909 - 12 January 1910 - Grand Vizier
1909-1912 - Member of the Ayan Assembly
22 July 1912 - 28 October 1912 - Minister of Justice
28 October 1912 - 1918 - Vienna Ambassador
In this process, Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha assumed important positions at different levels of the Ottoman bureaucracy and played an influential role in the Ottoman administration, especially during his term as General Inspector of Rumelia.
Repository
Archival history
The Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha Papers contain important information for researchers interested in late Ottoman history, the Balkans, Macedonia, and the Committee of Union and Progress. During the March 31st Incident, the correspondence of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier during his long civil service life, turned into a rich collection of documents.
Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, who served in important positions, met Namik Kemal while he was a clerk at the Midilli Tahrirat Kalemi and their friendship grew. Their mutual correspondence is one of the remarkable groups of documents in the collection. The period in which the collection is more concentrated is the years of the General Inspectorate of Rumelia (1902-1908), which was established by Abdülhamid II and headed by Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, when the Ottoman Empire began to disintegrate and rebellions broke out.
In 2016, 78 new documents purchased from a bookseller were added to the documents cataloged and opened for research in 2006. The added documents (1714-1728) include correspondence between Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha's wife, children and other family members, and are mainly letters of Hilmi Pasha's wife Zehra Hanım and daughter Aliye Hilmi Hanım. With these letters, the collection of documents has become even richer.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Purchase (09.04.1999, 2016)
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The collection of correspondence of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha, who was the Grand Vizier at the time of the March 31st Incident, is an important source for researchers interested in late Ottoman history, the Committee of Union and Progress, the Balkans and Macedonia. Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha's official and personal correspondence is an important primary source for national and international political developments in the Balkans, especially during his Rumelia Inspectorate. The documents from this inspectorate period account for more than half of the collection.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Since it is a historical document, it will be kept permanently.
Accruals
Closed-end fund
System of arrangement
The documents are divided into sub-funds according to the offices held by Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
The catalog information and digital images of the documents are available online. The originals of the documents can be viewed and searched at our center upon request.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright belongs to İSAM. It can be reproduced with the permission of the institution and quoted with reference.
Language of material
- Ottoman Turkish
- French
- English
- Arabic
- Slavic Language
Script of material
- Arabic
- Latin
Language and script notes
In some correspondence with the central administration, an encrypted alphabet was created. The language of some telegrams is encrypted.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
The material in the collection is all paper.
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
The original documents are kept in the İSAM Library Archive (İKA) repository.
Existence and location of copies
Digital copies of the documents are kept on hard drives available at the İSAM Library Archive (İKA).
Related units of description
Some of the documents belonging to Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha are also housed in Koç University Suna Kıraç Library. The documents in the collection consist of the correspondence of Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha during his mission in Yemen.
You can access the archive via the link below: https://librarydigitalcollections.ku.edu.tr/collection/huseyin-hilmi-pasa-belgeleri-koleksiyonu/
Notes area
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Namık Kemal (Subject)
- Enver Paşa (Subject)
- Sadrazam Said Paşa (Subject)
- Resneli Niyazi (Kolağası Ahmed Niyazi) (Subject)
- II. Abdülhamit (Subject)
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Description control area
Description identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
Classified according to ISAD-G standard.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
Opened for research on January 1, 2006.
Language(s)
- Turkish
Script(s)
- Latin
Sources
https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/huseyin-hilmi-pasa
Özgür Tilbe, Hüseyin Hilmi Paşa'nın Rumeli Umumî Müfettişliği (1902-1908), Doktora tezi, Sakarya Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, 2018. (https://www.academia.edu/88812254/H%C3%BCseyin_Hilmi_Pa%C5%9Fa_n%C4%B1n_Rumeli_Umum%C3%AE_M%C3%BCfetti%C5%9Fli%C4%9Fi_1902_1908_)
In addition, theses, books, and articles have been published about Hüseyin Hilmi Pasha.
Archivist's note
Classification of documents by Dr. Kenan Yıldız, Ömer Faruk Bahadur, Müslüm İstekli, and Dr. Asiye Kakırman Yıldız; adaptation to ISAD-G Standard by Dr. Nuray Urkaç Güler, digitization by Volkan Kuru.