Official
Sava Efendi
Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum). Born in Konya in 1881/82 (AH 1299). On record 1901 to 1908, 7 annual entries.
Archive reference 149-143-281
Life#
Born in Konya in 1881/82 (AH 1299), Sava Efendi came from the Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum) community; the father was a tradesman (esnaf). Sava had four years of schooling, at a community school (Millet Mektebi), and wrote French, Greek (Rum) and Turkish.
Work began in Konya in 1901/02, at about 19, paid from the start, on 150 kuruş a month. Every annual entry from 1901/02 to 1907/08 places Sava in Konya, the birthplace, first as a deliverer (Müvezzi), from 1907/08 as a postal official (Posta Memuru).
The salary went from 150 kuruş a month in 1901/02 to 250 in 1907/08, the peak, as Posta Memuru in Konya, when 28 per cent of paid officials earned less. In all, seven years of salary come to 13,800 kuruş, 36 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned in those years. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.
Career and salary#
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02 | 150 | 500 | 150 | 5% |
| 1902/03 | 150 | 500 | 175 | 5% |
| 1903/04 | 150 | 475 | 192.5 | 4% |
| 1904/05 | 150 | 450 | 192.5 | 5% |
| 1905/06 | 150 | 475 | 217.5 | 5% |
| 1906/07 | 150 | 450 | 150 | 6% |
| 1907/08 | 250 | 300 | 300 | 28% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Point at a year for its salary, title, place and the median of all officials paid that year. Choose a row of the table to mark its years in the charts and its stop on the map.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02AH 1319 | First work | Konya | 150first-salary field |
| 1901 to 1907AH 1319 to 1324 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Posta Memuru | Konya | 250 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Birthplace
- Konya
- Community
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- Nationality as recorded
- Rum
- Father's occupation
- Esnaf
Education
- Community school
- Millet Mektebi (4 years)community school (school of a non-Muslim community)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives yes.
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Greek (Rum)
- Kitabetwriting. Rum is the word of the records for Greek as spoken by the Orthodox Christians of the empire. It is kept apart from the column Greek, which the records also have
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1901/02 (AH 1319)
- Place
- Konya
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 150
Recorded with#
Officials who share a place, a job title, a school, a birthplace or the year of the first annual entry. Ranks compare the highest monthly salary of each official.
Same place, same years
Of the 56 officials with entries in Konya in the same years, Sava Efendi had the 48th highest salary.
- Fransuva Efendi6 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- İhsan Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 3,000 kuruş
- Hasan Sani Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,500 kuruş
- Mehmet Sami Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 17 officials with the title Müvezzi in the same years, Sava Efendi had the 14th highest salary.
- Hamid Efendi6 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmet Fevzi Efendi6 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Yahya Efendi6 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet İhsan Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 450 kuruş
- Mehmet Zikri Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
Same school
Of the 263 officials with Millet Mektebi among their schools, Sava Efendi had the 232nd highest salary.
- Beşare Nahul Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 430 kuruş
- Devidras Avram Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Selim Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Viktor Maksim Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Anastaş Efendiborn 1880/81 (AH 1298); highest salary 400 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 28 officials born in Konya, Sava Efendi had the 26th highest salary.
- İBRAHİM ETHEM EFENDİborn 1878/79 (AH 1296); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Mehmet Esat Efendiborn 1878/79 (AH 1296); highest salary 480 kuruş
- ALİ RIZA EFENDİborn 1877/78 (AH 1294); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Sava Efendiborn 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 100 kuruş
- Mehmet Hulusi Efendiborn 1874/75 (AH 1291); highest salary 700 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 131 officials whose first annual entry is for 1901/02 (AH 1319), Sava Efendi had the 92nd highest salary.
- Hasan Hidayet Efendifirst entry in Konya; highest salary 400 kuruş
- İbrahim Hakki Efendifirst entry in Konya; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendifirst entry in Konya; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmet Naci Efendifirst entry in Jerusalem (Kudüs); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Hafız Mehmet Bahir Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 400 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (7)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Müvezzi | Konya | 150 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Posta Memuru | Konya | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 149-143-281 |
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 (14)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Sava Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1299 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | konya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | konya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Esnaf | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Rum | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Millet Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1319 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1901 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Konya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 150 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- 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.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 5 annual entries of 7 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- Sava Efendi
- Deliverer (Müvezzi)
- Konya
- Community school (Millet Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- Postal official (Posta Memuru)
- Biography of an Ottoman official (Osmanlı memurunun biyografisi)
- Career and pay (memuriyet ve maaş)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)