Mehmet Tevfik Efendi
Mehmet Tevfik Efendi was born in Ipsala in AH 1302. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Edremid in AH 1321 (19 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1324 with Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Hudavendigar (350 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing); Rum: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1302
- AH 1321Birth-year difference: 19 AH years
- AH 1324Birth-year difference: 22 AH years
Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHMuhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti · hudavendigar · 350 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in Edremid. The first-salary field is 350 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
AH 1324 · 1906 label
One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.
Places in this record
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.
How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries
AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.
Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 3 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Yuzbasi
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1302
- Religion wording
- Musluman
- Nationality wording
- Turkish
Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1321 · 1903 label
- Place
- Edremid
- First-salary field
- 350 kuruş
- Source
- recovered
The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.
Recorded language repertoire
3 fields contain historical terms.
- Turkish
- Kitabet (writing)
- French
- Kitabet (writing)
- Rum
- Kitabet (writing)
Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.
Further biographical evidence
Source wording and status assertions
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)
- FL Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes
These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.
Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-5e2ba3e19fa6918b. This is separate from the annual data edition and annual-record PDF.
Download these additional source records (JSON)
| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | FL Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 37475 Recorded source-year values: 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 38721 Recorded source-year values: 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 38721 Recorded source-year values: 1324 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 64768 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38721 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38721 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38721 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38721 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1324 · AH source lines 64768 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 37475 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 37475 |
Read the complete annual source table
Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti | hudavendigar | 350 | recovered line 35142 |
- AH 1324 · 1906 label
Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Original title: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti
350 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 35142
Evidence & edition
Coded extracts, preserved source differences
Collection membership
- Website edition
- ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
- Source editions
- older, september, recovered
- Annual display source
- Recovered merged personnel extract
- Paper sample
- Outside the paper sample
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported
How to read this dossier
The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.
All substantive source assertions (84)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1302 | recovered · dobirth source lines 35142 |
| birthPlace | ipsala | recovered · birthplace source lines 35142 |
| birthPlace | ipsala | recovered · birth_place source lines 35142 |
| birthProvince | edirne | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 35142 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 35142 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 35142 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 35142 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 35142 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 35142 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 35142 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 35142 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 35142 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 35142 |
| fatherJob | Yuzbasi | recovered · fatherjob source lines 35142 |
| fatherJob | yuzbasi | recovered · father_job source lines 35142 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 35142 |
| firstWorkG | 1903 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 35142 |
| firstWorkPlace | Edremid | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 35142 |
| firstWorkSalary | 350 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 35142 |
| birthLatitude | 40.921449 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 35142 |
| birthLongitude | 26.379852 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 35142 |
| name | Mehmet Tevfik Efendi | september · İsim source lines 37475 |
| birthH | 1302 | september · dobirth source lines 37475 |
| birthPlace | ipsala | september · birthplace source lines 37475 |
| birthProvince | edirne | september · birth_vilayet source lines 37475 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 37475 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 37475 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · mulazemet source lines 37475 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 37475 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 37475 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 37475 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 37475 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 37475 |
| fatherJob | yuzbasi | september · fatherjob source lines 37475 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | september · firstjob_year source lines 37475 |
| firstWorkPlace | edremid | september · firstjob_place source lines 37475 |
| firstWorkSalary | 350 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 37475 |
| birthLatitude | 40.921449 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 37475 |
| birthLongitude | 26.379852 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 37475 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 37475 |
| language:French | Kitabet | september · lang_french source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | september · lang_french2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 37475 |
| language:Rum | Kitabet | september · lang_rum source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 2 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 37475 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 37475 |
| name | Mehmet Tevfik Efendi | older · İsim source lines 46133 |
| birthH | 1302 | older · dobirth source lines 46133 |
| birthPlace | ipsala | older · birthplace source lines 46133 |
| birthProvince | edirne | older · birth_vilayet source lines 46133 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 46133 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 46133 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 46133 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 46133 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 46133 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 46133 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 46133 |
| fatherJob | yuzbasi | older · fatherjob source lines 46133 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | older · firstjob_year source lines 46133 |
| firstWorkPlace | edremid | older · firstjob_place source lines 46133 |
| firstWorkSalary | 350 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 46133 |
| birthLatitude | 40.921449 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 46133 |
| birthLongitude | 26.379852 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 46133 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 46133 |
| language:French | Kitabet | older · lang_french source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | older · lang_french2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 46133 |
| language:Rum | Kitabet | older · lang_rum source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 2 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 46133 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 46133 |
Original stored values
These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.
Cite this record
Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Tevfik Efendi”, archival reference 149-112-219, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-1223f6780b5315d0/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-1223f6780b5315d0/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.