Mehmed Şerif Beğ

Born 1874/75 (AH 1291) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1895 to 1912 (AH 1313 to 1330)

Languages Arabic, French, Persian, Turkish

Archival references DH.SAİDd, 70-243; CDAB, DH.SAİDd, 70-243

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmed Şerif Beğ was born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1874/75 (AH 1291). The father’s occupation was Eski Selanik vilayeti vali muavini. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Askerî Rüşdiye; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane. The language repertoire included Arabic, French, Persian and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi in 1895/96 (AH 1313). Dated career entries span 1895/96 (AH 1313) to 1911/12 (AH 1330) across 14 AH years, beginning with Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi memuru. More than one post or place appears in 4 of those years. Place names include Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi, Şûrâ-yı Devlet, Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi and Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi and 7 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 250 kuruş in 1895/96 (AH 1313) to 15,000 kuruş in 1911/12 (AH 1330); the highest recorded monthly rate is 15,000 kuruş in 1905/06 (AH 1323).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 1874/75 (AH 1291)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Eski Selanik vilayeti vali muavini^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Askerî Rüşdiye; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane^[source]
First work: 1895/96 (AH 1313) · Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi^[source]
Age at first work: 22^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 250 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

14
Dated AH years: 13
Career place names: 5
Entries without a resolved year: 14
Salary years: 250 → 15,000
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 15,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 97.8%
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. 1895/96 (AH 1313) to 1911/12 (AH 1330); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1905/06 (AH 1323)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1911/12 (AH 1330).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 9 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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7 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

1
1874/75 (AH 1291)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1895/96 (AH 1313)
Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 22
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi memuru
  250 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1896/97 (AH 1314) · 5 recorded years
Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi
AH entries: 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi
1. Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi memuru
  250 kuruşCalculated age 23
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi müdür muavini
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 27
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 16 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1901/02 (AH 1319)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Maaş kaydı
  10,000 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1905/06 (AH 1323) · 3 recorded years
Şûrâ-yı Devlet
AH entries: 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Şûrâ-yı Devlet
1. Şûrâ-yı Devlet azası
  15,000 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Şûrâ-yı Devlet azası
  15,000 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet / Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi / Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Şûrâ-yı Devlet; Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi; Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi
1. Şûrâ-yı Devlet
  Şûrâ-yı Devlet azası
  15,000 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi
  Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi azası
  Calculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1909/10 (AH 1327)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi / Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi
1. Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi
  Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi azası
  Calculated age 36
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  İstanbul valisi
  12,500 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
8
1910/11 (AH 1328)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet Maliye Dairesi
Not yet located on the map: Şûrâ-yı Devlet Maliye Dairesi
1. Şûrâ-yı Devlet Maliye Dairesi azası
  5,000 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1911/12 (AH 1330)
Nafia Nezareti / Dâhiliye Nezareti / Place not recorded / Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi / Maarif Nezareti / Ticaret ve Ziraat Nezareti
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Nafia Nezareti; Dâhiliye Nezareti; Location not recorded; Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi; Maarif Nezareti; Ticaret ve Ziraat Nezareti
1. Nafia Nezareti
  Nafia nazırı
  15,000 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ticaret ve Ziraat Nezareti
  Ticaret ve Ziraat nazırı vekili
  Calculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 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.

İstanbul valisi · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
İstifa · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi reisi · Şûrâ-yı Devlet Mülkiye Dairesi · Undated · 6,000 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
İrade-i seniyye ile atanacak memurlar nizamnamesi komisyonu reisi · Memurin nizamnamesi komisyonu · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Eski padişahı İstanbul'a getirme ve istirahatini sağlama görevi · Selanik–İstanbul · Undated 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

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only

Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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How the comparison is calculated

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Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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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
1895/96 (AH 1313)	250	400	140 to 1,500	20.7%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	330	450	150 to 1,575	36.3%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	400	400	140 to 1,425	45.2%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	750	400	144 to 1,400	77.3%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,000	400	140 to 1,440	83.0%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	1,500	400	140 to 1,500	89.9%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	10,000	400	150 to 1,520	98.9%	1666
1905/06 (AH 1323)	15,000	430	125 to 1,500	99.4%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	15,000	450	150 to 1,525	99.2%	1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)	15,000	460	135 to 1,615	99.3%	1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)	15,000	400	150 to 2,000	98.5%	1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)	12,500	600	200 to 2,000	98.3%	1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)	5,000	500	200 to 2,000	98.1%	732
1911/12 (AH 1330)	15,000	1,000	300 to 3,000	97.8%	233

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi6
1895 to 1901 (AH 1313 to 1318)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet4
1905 to 1909 (AH 1323 to 1326)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi2
1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
Dâhiliye Nezareti1
1911/12 (AH 1330)
Hamidiye Hicaz Demiryolu Komisyon-ı Âlisi1
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)1
1909/10 (AH 1327)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Dâhiliye Nezareti Mektûbî Kalemi250 to 1,500
Şûrâ-yı Devlet15,000
Dâhiliye Nezareti15,000
Istanbul (Dersaadet)12,500
Maarif Nezareti15,000
Nafia Nezareti15,000

Six places with the most recorded career years. 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

Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi memuru4
1895 to 1899 (AH 1313 to 1316)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet azası4
1905 to 1909 (AH 1323 to 1326)
Dâhiliye Mektûbî Kalemi müdür muavini3
1898 to 1901 (AH 1316 to 1318)
Şûrâ-yı Devlet Tanzimat Dairesi azası2
1908 to 1910 (AH 1326 to 1327)
Başkitabet ek görevi1
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Dâhiliye nazırı1
1911/12 (AH 1330)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

Istanbul665 other officialsHüseyin Nazmi born 1874/75 (AH 1291); highest salary 900 kuruş
Istanbul131 other officialsAhmed Tevfik Paşa 1 shared year; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
1895/96 (AH 1313)179 other officialsALĠ ġEVKET EFENDĠ first annual entry 1895/96 (AH 1313); highest salary 150 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Aliyyü'l-a'lâ dereceli şehadetnameler^[1]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Askerî Rüşdiye; Mekteb-i Mülkiye-i Şahane^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Arabic · Aşina^[source]
French · Aşina^[source]
Persian · Aşina^[source]
Turkish · Kitâbet^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i ahval kayıtlarına göre Şûrâ-yı Devlet reisleri
BURAK BALCI · 2025 · Pages 104, 105, 106, 107, 108
DH.SAİDd, 70-243; 153 CDAB, DH.SAİDd, 70-243

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