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Mehmet Esat 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. 1859/60 (AH 1276)İkbal arabacısı yardımcısı (Istabl-ı Amire hademesi)Istabl-ı Amire · 40 kuruş
  2. 1864/65 (AH 1281)Mediha Sultan hademesiMediha Sultan sarayı · 100 kuruş

    1. Mediha Sultan hademesi

      Mediha Sultan sarayı · 100 kuruş

      [1]

  3. 1865/66 (AH 1282)Mediha Sultan hademesiMediha Sultan sarayıContinuing service described by the source

    1. Mediha Sultan hademesi

      Mediha Sultan sarayı

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  4. 1866/67 (AH 1283)Mediha Sultan hademesiMediha Sultan sarayı · 83 kuruş

    1. Mediha Sultan hademesi

      Mediha Sultan sarayı

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Mediha Sultan hademesi

      Mediha Sultan sarayı · 83 kuruş

      [1]

  5. 1870/71 (AH 1287)Şehzade Vahideddin esb hademesi yardımcısıŞehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 83 kuruş

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin esb hademesi yardımcısı

      Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 83 kuruş

      [1]

  6. 1872/73 (AH 1289)Şehzade Vahideddin esb-i ser hademesiŞehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 166.5 kuruş

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin esb-i ser hademesi

      Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 166.5 kuruş

      [1]

  7. 1876/77 (AH 1293)Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)Mabeyn-i Hümayun · 500 kuruş
  8. 1877/78 (AH 1294)Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)Mabeyn-i HümayunContinuing service described by the source

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  9. 1878 (AH 1295)Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)Mabeyn-i HümayunContinuing service described by the source

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  10. 1878/79 (AH 1296)Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)Mabeyn-i HümayunContinuing service described by the source

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  11. 1879/80 (AH 1297)Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi) · 2 career entriesMabeyn-i Hümayun · 400 kuruş

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi)

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi

      Mabeyn-i Hümayun · 400 kuruş

      [1]

  12. 1889/90 (AH 1307)Şehzade Vahideddin lâlâsıŞehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 600 kuruş

    1. Şehzade Vahideddin lâlâsı

      Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 600 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

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

03006001859/60AH 12761889/90AH 13071859/60 (AH 1276) · İkbal arabacısı yardımcısı (Istabl-ı Amire hademesi) · Istabl-ı Amire · 40 kuruş1864/65 (AH 1281) · Mediha Sultan hademesi · Mediha Sultan sarayı · 100 kuruş1866/67 (AH 1283) · Mediha Sultan hademesi · Mediha Sultan sarayı · 83 kuruş1870/71 (AH 1287) · Şehzade Vahideddin esb hademesi yardımcısı · Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 83 kuruş1872/73 (AH 1289) · Şehzade Vahideddin esb-i ser hademesi · Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 166.5 kuruş1876/77 (AH 1293) · Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi (Mabeyn-i Hümayun hademesi) · Mabeyn-i Hümayun · 500 kuruş1879/80 (AH 1297) · Şehzade Vahideddin mümeyyizi · Mabeyn-i Hümayun · 400 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · Şehzade Vahideddin lâlâsı · Şehzade Vahideddin dairesi · 600 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Şebinkarahisar [source]Karahisar-ı Şarki [1]
Archive references
BOA, DH.SAİD.d, No: 66/311 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan Mektebi [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Istabl-ı Amire [source]
First-salary field
40 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1859/60 (AH 1276) [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. Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Giresunlu devlet adamları (1879-1909)

    AHMET YADİ · 2014 · Pages 114, 115

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