İsmail Rifat Efendi
İsmail Rifat Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1299. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Sariyer in AH 1314 (15 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 3 distinct AH years between 1321 and 1323; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Sariyer (200 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
3 recorded AH years · 3 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1299
- AH 1314Birth-year difference: 15 AH years
- AH 1321–1323Birth-year difference: 22–24 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 · AHMuhabere Memuru · sariyer · 200 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1314 in Sariyer. The first-salary field is 200 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.
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
- 7 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 0
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Kaymakam
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1299
- 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 1314 · 1896 label
- Place
- Sariyer
- First-salary field
- 200 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
1 field contains historical terms.
- Turkish
- 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)
- 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 | Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 36415, 36416, 36417 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 36415, 36416, 36417 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 59125 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 61272 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 63121 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 36415 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 36416 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 36417 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 36415 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 36416 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 36417 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 36415 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 36416 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 36417 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 36415 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 36416 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 36417 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1321 · AH source lines 59125 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1322 · AH source lines 61272 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 63121 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 35287 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 35286 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 35285 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 35287 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 35286 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 35285 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | sariyer | 200 | recovered line 33155 | |
| 1904 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | sariyer | 200 | recovered line 33156 | |
| 1905 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | sariyer | 200 | recovered line 33157 |
- AH 1321 · 1903 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
200 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33155
- AH 1322 · 1904 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
200 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33156
- AH 1323 · 1905 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
200 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33157
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
- Included · 3 annual entries
- 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 (80)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1299 | recovered · dobirth source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birthplace source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birth_place source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 7 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| qualification | 0 | recovered · qualification source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 0 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| fatherJob | Kaymakam | recovered · fatherjob source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| fatherJob | kaymakam | recovered · father_job source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| firstWorkH | 1314 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| firstWorkG | 1896 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| firstWorkPlace | Sariyer | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 33155, 33156, 33157 |
| name | İsmail Rifat Efendi | september · İsim source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| birthH | 1299 | september · dobirth source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | september · birthplace source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | september · birth_vilayet source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 7 | september · mulazemet source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 7 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| qualification | 0 | september · qualification source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| fatherJob | kaymakam | september · fatherjob source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| firstWorkH | 1314 | september · firstjob_year source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| firstWorkPlace | sariyer | september · firstjob_place source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 35285, 35286, 35287 |
| name | İsmail Rifat Efendi | older · İsim source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| birthH | 1299 | older · dobirth source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | older · birthplace source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | older · birth_vilayet source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 7 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| qualification | 0 | older · qualification source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| fatherJob | kaymakam | older · fatherjob source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| firstWorkH | 1314 | older · firstjob_year source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| firstWorkPlace | sariyer | older · firstjob_place source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| firstWorkSalary | 200 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 27764, 28360, 32087 |
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, “İsmail Rifat Efendi”, archival reference 119-74-143, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-4639e69026c96bb9/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-4639e69026c96bb9/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.