Job title
Ambar Baskitabeti
Group of job titles: Technical and stores
Stored spellings: Ambar Baskitabeti; ambar baskitabeti
4 officials held the job title Ambar Baskitabeti. Its 32 annual entries run from 1883 to 1911 (AH 1301 to 1328). The median of the 32 recorded monthly salaries is 1,000 kuruş, against 500 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years. The entries name 1 place, Istanbul.
- Officials
- 4
- Years on recordAH 1301 to 1328, 25 years with an entry
- 1883 to 1911
- Median monthly salaryfrom 32 recorded salaries
- 1,000 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Technical and stores
No source read describes Ambar Baskitabeti by itself, so this is the profile of its group of job titles.
Technical offices of the Post and Telegraph ministry, among them the telegraph factory, the Engineer Office (mühendis kalemi) and the science office (fen kalemi). The factory, opened in 1869, made and repaired telegraph instruments, batteries and postal goods; the science office was directed for years by the French electrician Emile Lacoine.
History
Until 1869 all telegraph machines were imported. From 1883 the ministry sent graduates of Darüşşafaka to study telegraphy in Paris; those who returned were given posts of importance, and in 1901 two of them held posts at the head of the Engineer Office and of the factory.
Sources
- Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 365. Used for: summary, history.
- Okan, Ayşegül (2003). The Ottoman postal and telegraph services in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. MA thesis, Boğaziçi University, Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History.Pages or part: 30, 105-108, 141 (appendix B). Used for: summary, history.
Monthly salary each year
The same numbers as a table
| Year | Recorded salaries | Median | Mean | Lower quartile | Upper quartile | Median of the whole collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 500 |
| 1884/85 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 500 |
| 1885/86 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 500 |
| 1886/87 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 500 |
| 1887/88 | 1 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 1,200 | 500 |
| 1888/89 | 1 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 600 | 500 |
| 1889/90 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1890/91 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1891/92 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1892/93 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1893/94 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1894/95 | 1 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 725 | 500 |
| 1895/96 | 1 | 850 | 850 | 850 | 850 | 500 |
| 1896/97 | 2 | 907.5 | 907.5 | 836.25 | 978.75 | 500 |
| 1897/98 | 1 | 765 | 765 | 765 | 765 | 500 |
| 1898/99 | 1 | 765 | 765 | 765 | 765 | 500 |
| 1899/1900 | 2 | 1,175 | 1,175 | 1,012.5 | 1,337.5 | 500 |
| 1900/01 | 2 | 1,175 | 1,175 | 1,012.5 | 1,337.5 | 500 |
| 1901/02 | 2 | 1,175 | 1,175 | 1,012.5 | 1,337.5 | 500 |
| 1902/03 | 2 | 1,175 | 1,175 | 1,012.5 | 1,337.5 | 500 |
| 1903/04 | 2 | 1,225 | 1,225 | 1,087.5 | 1,362.5 | 475 |
| 1904/05 | 2 | 1,350 | 1,350 | 1,200 | 1,500 | 450 |
| 1905/06 | 1 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 1,050 | 475 |
| 1909/10 | 1 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 462.5 |
| 1910/11 | 1 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 1,500 | 500 |
Salaries are nominal monthly amounts in kuruş, as assigned. The thick line is the median of each year and the thin line the mean. A year with fewer than 5 recorded salaries is drawn as an open mark and is not joined to the line.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 4 | 32 | 1883 to 1911 |
Ottoman officials recorded
4 officials, the one with most annual entries first.
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendi | 1888 to 1906 | 18 | 600 to 1,050 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Derviş Ali Efendi | 1896 to 1905 | 7 | 1,050 to 1,650 | Bosna |
| Mehmet Şükrü Efendi | 1883 to 1888 | 5 | 1,200 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
| Mustafa İsmet Efendi | 1909 to 1911 | 2 | 1,500 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
Years run from the first to the last annual entry. An official without a recorded name is listed after the named officials.
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Ambar Baskitabeti
- Ottoman job titles (Osmanlı memuriyet unvanları)
- Labour history (emek tarihi)
- Salaries of officials (memur maaşları)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)