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Mehmet Şerif Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1895/96 (AH 1313)Şer‘iyye mahkemesi kâtibiCarsancak
  2. 1905/06 (AH 1323)Infisal

    1. Infisal

      · Calculated age 26

      [1]

  3. 1908/09 (AH 1326)Bidâyet mahkemesi mukavelât muharrirliği refakatiMalatya
  4. 1909/10 (AH 1327)Bidâyet mahkemesi mukavelât muharrirliği refakati · 3 career entriesMalatya · Kuyucak nahiyesi, Hısnımansur kazası · 400 kuruş

    1. Bidâyet mahkemesi mukavelât muharrirliği refakati

      Malatya · Calculated age 30

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Azil

      · Calculated age 30

      [1]

    3. Nahiye Müdürü

      Kuyucak nahiyesi, Hısnımansur kazası · Calculated age 30 · 400 kuruş

      Broader service field: Provincial administration

      [1]

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

02004001909/10AH 13271909/10 (AH 1327) · Nahiye Müdürü · Kuyucak nahiyesi, Hısnımansur kazası · age 30 · 400 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Elbistan [source]
Birth year
1879/80 (AH 1297) [source]
Archive references
BOA, DH. SAİD. d. 158/451 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Aşina [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm [source]
Education
Elbistan ibtidâî ve rüştiye mektepleri [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
16 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
carsancak [source]Çarsancak [1]
First work year
1895/96 (AH 1313) [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahvâl kayıtlarına göre Elbistanlı memurlar

    ŞEYMA BÜLBÜL · 2025 · Pages 68, 69

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