Official
Mehmet Tahir Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Tripoli (Trablusgarp) in 1878/79 (AH 1296). On record 1899 to 1911, 12 annual entries.
Archive reference 116_140; 277
Life#
Mehmet Tahir Efendi was born in Tripoli (Trablusgarp) in 1878/79 (AH 1296). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Esnaf.
Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Arabic, with Kitabet; French, with Kitabet; Italian, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Tripoli in 1897/98 (AH 1315). The official was then about 18 years old. The record gives 2 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 150 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1899/1900, the official was about 20 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1899/1900, shows Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli, with 150 kuruş a month. In 1903/04 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Ajloun (Aclun), the salary going from 220 to 540 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli). In 1904/05 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Tripoli, the salary going from 540 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Ajloun). In 1907/08 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli, the salary going from 600 to 550 kuruş a month (before: Seyyar Memur in Tripoli). In 1908/09 the record shows 2. Müdür in Marj (Merc), the salary going from 550 to 800 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli).
The highest salary, 800 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1908/09 as 2. Müdür. 74 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 350 kuruş. Over 12 years with a salary the median is 575 kuruş a month, with 4 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 320 kuruş, is seen in 1903/04. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 16.44 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1910/11, when 64 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1878/79 (AH 1296)
- Birthplace
- Tripoli (Trablusgarp)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Esnaf
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 2 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Middle
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- Yes
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Arabic
- Kitabetwriting
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Italian
- Kitabetwriting
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1897/98 (AH 1315)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 150
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897/98AH 1315 | First work | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 150first-salary field |
| 1899 to 1903AH 1317 to 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 150 to 220 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Ajloun (Aclun) | 540 |
| 1904 to 1907AH 1322 to 1324 | Seyyar Memur | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 600 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 550 |
| 1908 to 1911AH 1326 to 1328 | 2. Müdür | Marj (Merc) | 800 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899/1900 | 150 | 500 | 400 | 4% |
| 1900/01 | 150 | 500 | 400 | 4% |
| 1901/02 | 150 | 500 | 400 | 5% |
| 1902/03 | 220 | 500 | 380 | 13% |
| 1903/04 | 540 | 475 | 350 | 61% |
| 1904/05 | 600 | 450 | 600 | 67% |
| 1905/06 | 600 | 475 | 540 | 67% |
| 1906/07 | 600 | 450 | 500 | 65% |
| 1907/08 | 550 | 300 | 250 | 73% |
| 1908/09 | 800 | 350 | 800 | 74% |
| 1909/10 | 800 | 462.5 | 800 | 66% |
| 1910/11 | 800 | 500 | 900 | 64% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
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Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mehmet Rıfkı EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), 8 shared years
- Mehmet Ragıb EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), 8 shared years
- Mehmet Sabri EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), 6 shared years
- Ahmet Refik EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), 4 shared years
- Osman Nuri EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), 4 shared years
38 officials in all. Officials recorded in Tripoli (Trablusgarp)
Same school recorded
- Abdülkadir Hifzi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
- Abdülkadir Zihni EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
- Abdülkerim EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
- Abdullah Vahdi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
- Ahmet Behic EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Ahmet Muhtar EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), born 1879/80 (AH 1297)
- Sadık Şükrü EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), born 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Hafız Sadettin EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), born 1882/83 (AH 1300)
- Mehmet Ragıb EfendiTripoli (Trablusgarp), born 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- MEHMET MUHTAR EFENDİTripoli (Trablusgarp), born 1884/85 (AH 1302)
9 officials in all. Officials born in Tripoli (Trablusgarp)
Full record
Annual entries (12)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 220 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Ajloun (Aclun) | 540 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Seyyar Memur | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Seyyar Memur | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Seyyar Memur | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusgarp) | 550 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1908/09AH 1326 | 2. Müdür | Marj (Merc) | 800 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1909/10AH 1327 | 2. Müdür | Marj (Merc) | 800 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
| 1910/11AH 1328 | 2. Müdür | Marj (Merc) | 800 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_140; 277 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (15)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Tahir Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1296 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | trablusgarp | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | trablusgarp | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Esnaf | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | rusdiye mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 2 used on this page | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 other value | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1315 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1897 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Trablusgarp | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 150 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 7 annual entries of 12 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.