Official
Ali İrfan Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Mecitözü in 1873/74 (AH 1290). On record 1890 to 1895, 4 annual entries.
Archive reference 51_135; 265
Life#
Ali İrfan Efendi was born in Mecitözü in 1873/74 (AH 1290). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Ketebe.
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: Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Mecitozu in 1888/89 (AH 1306). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 2 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 237 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1890/91, the official was about 17 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1890/91, shows Muhabere Memuru in Tosya, with 237 kuruş a month. In 1894/95 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Çorum, the salary going from 237 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Tosya). No annual entry is recorded for 1893/94.
The highest salary, 400 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1894/95 as Muhabere Memuru. 30 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 4 years with a salary the median is 237 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and no cuts. The largest rise, 163 kuruş, is seen in 1894/95. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 13.98 per cent a year on average.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1873/74 (AH 1290)
- Birthplace
- Mecitözü
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Ketebe
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
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1888/89 (AH 1306)
- Place
- Mecitozu
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 237
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Fesat / Çorum cihetinde mutavattın Kızılbaşların Ermeni erbabı fesadını ihfa ve işlerini teshil ve muhaberelerini tesri‘ etmekte olduğu mukaddema Yozgat'ta zuhur eden Ermeni hadisesi esnasında teşekkül eden Divan-ı Harp'çe tahakkuk eylemiş ve mumaileyh Ali İrfan Efendi'nin dahi o takımdan olduğu cihetle istihdamı mahzurdan salim olamayacağı Ankara Vilayeti'nin dört yüz yirmi numara ve 23 Kânunuevvvel sene 1311 tarihli tahriratıyla bildirilmiş olması üzerine Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti İntihab-ı Memurin Komisyonu'nun bin elli üç numara 10 Kânunusani sene 1311 tarihli kararıyla 1313 senesi Ramazan-ı şerifinin yirmi ikisinde 24 Şubat sene 1311 azledildiği Nezaret-i müşarünileyha Sicill-i Ahvâl Müdüriyeti'nin 22 Rebiülevvel sene 1314 tarihli vukuat pusulasında gösterilmiştir.; Fesat
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1888/89AH 1306 | First work | Mecitozu | 237first-salary field |
| 1890 to 1893AH 1308 to 1310 | Muhabere Memuru | Tosya | 237 |
| No annual entry: 1893/94 (AH 1311) | |||
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhabere Memuru | Çorum | 400 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890/91 | 237 | 500 | 400 | 10% |
| 1891/92 | 237 | 500 | 400 | 11% |
| 1892/93 | 237 | 500 | 400 | 12% |
| 1894/95 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 30% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Not drawn. No position recorded: Mecitozu.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Named in scholarly works#
No link between a work and an official has been accepted. Each entry was found by fixed rules on the name and the recorded fields, and says what it rests on.
Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Çorumlu devlet memurları (1879-1909) (HAYRETTİN ÖRS, 2019). Name as printed: ALİ İRFAN EFENDİ (DH. SAID 51/135). PDF pages 73 and 74.
Probable link: same name and register and second number of the archive reference; served in the place the work covers; the recorded birthplace lies outside that place
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Abdulvahab EfendiTosya, 3 shared years
- ismail EfendiÇorum, 1 shared year
- Hacı Elvan Âlî EfendiÇorum, 1 shared year
- Hüseyin Hüsnü EfendiÇorum, 1 shared year
Same school recorded
- Abbas Rüştü EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
- Abdullah Zühtü EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
- Abdurrahman Sezai EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
- Ahmet HamiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
- Ahmet Nuri EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1890/91 (AH 1308)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Full record
Annual entries (4)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Muhabere Memuru | Tosya | 237 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 51_135; 265 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Tosya | 237 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 51_135; 265 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Muhabere Memuru | Tosya | 237 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 51_135; 265 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhabere Memuru | Çorum | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 51_135; 265 |
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 (16)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Ali İrfan Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1290 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | mecidozu | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | sivas | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | ketebe | 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 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1306 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1889 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Mecitozu | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 237 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Fesat / Çorum cihetinde mutavattın Kızılbaşların Ermeni erbabı fesadını ihfa ve işlerini teshil ve muhaberelerini tesri‘ etmekte olduğu mukaddema Yozgat'ta zuhur eden Ermeni hadisesi esnasında teşekkül eden Divan-ı Harp'çe tahakkuk eylemiş ve mumaileyh Ali İrfan Efendi'nin dahi o takımdan olduğu cihetle istihdamı mahzurdan salim olamayacağı Ankara Vilayeti'nin dört yüz yirmi numara ve 23 Kânunuevvvel sene 1311 tarihli tahriratıyla bildirilmiş olması üzerine Telgraf ve Posta Nezareti İntihab-ı Memurin Komisyonu'nun bin elli üç numara 10 Kânunusani sene 1311 tarihli kararıyla 1313 senesi Ramazan-ı şerifinin yirmi ikisinde 24 Şubat sene 1311 azledildiği Nezaret-i müşarünileyha Sicill-i Ahvâl Müdüriyeti'nin 22 Rebiülevvel sene 1314 tarihli vukuat pusulasında gösterilmiştir. used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Fesat other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- 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.
- 4 annual entries of 4 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.