MEHMED SADEDDİN EFENDİ

Born 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Dated entries 1878 to 1910 (AH 1296 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİDd., 99/135

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The life

MEHMED SADEDDİN EFENDİ was born in Komotini (Gümülcine) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi; Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Komotini (Gümülcine) in 1880/81 (AH 1298). Dated career entries span 1878/79 (AH 1296) to 1909/10 (AH 1327) across 27 AH years, from Komotini (Gümülcine) to Istanbul (Dersaadet), beginning with Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi öğrencisi (Görevin sona ermesi) and ending with entries for Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyidi. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Komotini (Gümülcine) and Istanbul (Dersaadet).^[1]

Monthly pay went from 40 kuruş in 1880/81 (AH 1298) to 1,200 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,200 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Komotini (Gümülcine) · 1866/67 (AH 1283)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi; Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi^[source]
First work: 1880/81 (AH 1298) · Komotini (Gümülcine)^[source]
Age at first work: 15^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 0 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.
Apprenticeship: 0.148^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.

Career in numbers

27
Dated AH years: 2
Career place names: 5
Entries without a resolved year: 25
Salary years: 40 → 1,200
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,200
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 75.1%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1880/81 (AH 1298) to 1909/10 (AH 1327); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1909/10 (AH 1327).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 11 · Komotini (Gümülcine)

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1
1866/67 (AH 1283)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1878/79 (AH 1296)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
1. Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi öğrencisi (Görevin sona ermesi)
  Calculated age 13
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1880/81 (AH 1298)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 15
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Gümülcine Sancağı Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı
  40 kuruşCalculated age 15
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1882/83 (AH 1300) · 3 recorded years
Komotini (Gümülcine)
AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.
1. Livâ Aşar İdaresi üçüncü kâtibi
  220 kuruşCalculated age 17
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Livâ Aşar İdaresi üçüncü kâtibi
  220 kuruşCalculated age 19
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Komotini (Gümülcine) / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Komotini (Gümülcine)
  Livâ Aşar İdaresi üçüncü kâtibi
  220 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Infisal
  Calculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1888/89 (AH 1306) · 2 recorded years
Komotini (Gümülcine)
AH entries: 1306, 1307. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Livâ Ağnam Tahsilat kâtibi
  Calculated age 23
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Livâ Bidayet Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi aza mülazımı
  270 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1890/91 (AH 1308)
Komotini (Gümülcine) / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Komotini (Gümülcine)
  Livâ Bidayet Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi aza mülazımı
  270 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Komotini (Gümülcine)
  Ziraat Bankası Gümülcine Şubesi kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Komotini (Gümülcine)
1. Ziraat Bankası Gümülcine Şubesi kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1892/93 (AH 1310)
Komotini (Gümülcine) / Place not recorded / Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Komotini (Gümülcine)
  Ziraat Bankası Gümülcine Şubesi kâtibi
  400 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki
  300 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki
  300 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki
  400 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1895/96 (AH 1313) · 15 recorded years
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki
  600 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyidi
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 44
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 22 recorded entries in this stage →

5 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

İstifa · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Bidayet Mahkemesi Kalemi mülazımı · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Görevin sona ermesi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Livâ Muhasebe Kalemi mülazımı · Komotini (Gümülcine) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1880/81 (AH 1298)	40	400	160 to 1,500	1.8%	1448
1882/83 (AH 1300)	220	400	150 to 1,400	16.0%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	220	400	150 to 1,400	15.9%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	220	400	150 to 1,500	16.4%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	220	400	150 to 1,500	16.9%	1787
1889/90 (AH 1307)	270	400	130 to 1,500	27.8%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	400	400	125 to 1,500	45.4%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	400	400	140 to 1,600	45.3%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	400	400	135 to 1,500	45.0%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	400	400	140 to 1,400	44.7%	1929
1895/96 (AH 1313)	600	400	140 to 1,500	64.9%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	600	450	150 to 1,575	64.0%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	650	400	140 to 1,425	74.0%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	700	400	144 to 1,400	74.8%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	750	400	140 to 1,440	76.3%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	750	400	140 to 1,500	76.5%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	800	400	150 to 1,520	75.7%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	900	400	150 to 1,500	79.9%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	900	405	150 to 1,450	79.2%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	900	400	135 to 1,500	79.4%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	900	430	125 to 1,500	77.4%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	1,000	450	150 to 1,525	78.0%	1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)	1,000	460	135 to 1,615	77.3%	1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)	1,000	400	150 to 2,000	75.9%	1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)	1,200	600	200 to 2,000	75.1%	1088

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Istanbul (Dersaadet)17
1892 to 1910 (AH 1310 to 1327)
Komotini (Gümülcine)11
1878 to 1893 (AH 1296 to 1310)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Istanbul (Dersaadet)300 to 1,200
Komotini (Gümülcine)0 to 400

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title

Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyidi12
1898 to 1910 (AH 1316 to 1327)
Ziraat Bankası İdare-i Umumiyesi Muhasebe Kalemi mukayyid refiki6
1892 to 1899 (AH 1310 to 1316)
Livâ Aşar İdaresi üçüncü kâtibi4
1882 to 1886 (AH 1300 to 1303)
Ziraat Bankası Gümülcine Şubesi kâtibi3
1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
Livâ Bidayet Mahkemesi Hukuk Dairesi aza mülazımı2
1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi öğrencisi (Görevin sona ermesi)1
1878/79 (AH 1296)

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Related officials in the salary reference

Komotini (Gümülcine)63 other officialsAron Kazez Efendi born 1866/67 (AH 1283); highest salary 600 kuruş
Istanbul558 other officialsMehmed Said 17 shared years; highest salary 10,000 kuruş
1878/79 (AH 1296)162 other officialsAbdüsselam Ahmed Efendi first entry in Shkodër (İşkodra); highest salary 350 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Rüşdiye şehadetnamesi^[1]

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi; Gümülcine Rüşdiye Mektebi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Gümülcineli devlet adamları
ŞEHADET ORAN · 2025 · Pages 102, 103, 104
BOA. DH. SAİDd., 99/135; 199 BOA. DH. SAİDd., 99/135.

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