Maksim Efendi

Born 1843/44 (AH 1259) · Istanbul (Dersaadet) · Dated entries 1862 to 1899 (AH 1279 to 1316)

Languages French, Italian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

The career, year by year

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The life

Maksim Efendi was born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1843/44 (AH 1259), within the Katolik community. Schooling included Bebek Fransız Mektebi. The language repertoire included French, Italian, Rum (as recorded) and Turkish.^[1]

The earliest service point in the record is dated 1862/63 (AH 1279). Dated career entries span 1862/63 (AH 1279) to 1898/99 (AH 1316) across 37 AH years, beginning with Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Evrak Kalemi mülazımı. More than one post or place appears in 8 of those years. Place names include Kalas, Korfu, Malta and Ragusa and 3 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 50 kuruş in 1862/63 (AH 1279) to 2,700 kuruş in 1898/99 (AH 1316); the highest recorded monthly rate is 3,000 kuruş in 1881/82 (AH 1299).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Istanbul (Dersaadet) · 1843/44 (AH 1259)^[source]
Education: Bebek Fransız Mektebi^[source]
First work: 1862/63 (AH 1279)^[source]
Age at first work: 20^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.

Career in numbers

38
Dated AH years: 8
Career place names: 1
Entries without a resolved year: 38
Salary years: 50 → 2,700
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 3,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 96.0%
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. 1862/63 (AH 1279) to 1898/99 (AH 1316); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1881/82 (AH 1299)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1898/99 (AH 1316).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 15 · Istanbul (Dersaadet)

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Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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

1
1843/44 (AH 1259)
Istanbul (Dersaadet)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1862/63 (AH 1279)
Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 20
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Evrak Kalemi mülazımı
  50 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
3
1863/64 (AH 1280) · 19 recorded years
Place not recorded
AH entries: 1280, 1281, 1282, 1283, 1284, 1285, 1286, 1287, 1288, 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Evrak Kalemi mülazımı
  50 kuruşCalculated age 21
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hariciye Nezareti tercümanı
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 30 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1881/82 (AH 1299)
Place not recorded / Kalas
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Place not recorded
  Hariciye Nezareti tercümanı
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kalas
  Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 40
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5
1882/83 (AH 1300) · 4 recorded years
Kalas
AH entries: 1300, 1301, 1302, 1303. Gaps remain open.
1. Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 44
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1886/87 (AH 1304)
Kalas / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Kalas
  Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 45
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  Tuna Avrupa Komisyonu azası
  Calculated age 45
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1887/88 (AH 1305) · 2 recorded years
Kalas
AH entries: 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.
1. Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 46
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 47
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1889/90 (AH 1307)
Kalas / Korfu
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Korfu
1. Kalas
  Kalas başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 48
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Korfu
  Korfu başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 48
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1890/91 (AH 1308) · 2 recorded years
Korfu
AH entries: 1308, 1309. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Korfu
1. Korfu başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 49
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Korfu başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 50
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
10
1892/93 (AH 1310)
Korfu / Malta
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Korfu; Malta
1. Korfu
  Korfu başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 51
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Malta
  Malta başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 51
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1893/94 (AH 1311)
Malta / Ragusa
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Malta; Ragusa
1. Malta
  Malta başşehbenderi
  3,000 kuruşCalculated age 52
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ragusa
  Ragusa başşehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 52
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1894/95 (AH 1312) · 2 recorded years
Ragusa
AH entries: 1312, 1313. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Ragusa
1. Ragusa başşehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 53
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ragusa başşehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 54
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
13
1896/97 (AH 1314)
Ragusa / Barselona / Place not recorded
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ragusa; Barselona; Location not recorded
1. Ragusa
  Ragusa başşehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 55
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Place not recorded
  İstifa
  Calculated age 55
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
14
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Mazuliyet
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 56
  Entry & evidence →[1]
15
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Bükreş / Place not recorded / Sofia (Sofya)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Bükreş; Location not recorded
1. Bükreş
  Bükreş başşehbenderi
  2,700 kuruşCalculated age 57
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sofia (Sofya)
  Sofya tüccar vekili
  1,800 kuruşCalculated age 57
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry without a resolved year

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

Belgrad başşehbenderi · Belgrade (Belgrad) · 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

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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
1862/63 (AH 1279)	50	400	140 to 3,000	2.0%	197
1863/64 (AH 1280)	50	475	125 to 3,000	2.6%	232
1864/65 (AH 1281)	50	400	125 to 3,000	3.2%	253
1865/66 (AH 1282)	50	400	150 to 2,000	1.5%	341
1866/67 (AH 1283)	50	400	146 to 2,000	2.8%	399
1867/68 (AH 1284)	150	458	150 to 2,500	8.1%	435
1868/69 (AH 1285)	150	475	150 to 3,000	8.1%	505
1869/70 (AH 1286)	150	400	150 to 2,250	9.4%	609
1870/71 (AH 1287)	200	400	150 to 2,000	15.3%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	200	420.5	125 to 2,375	16.2%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	228	450	140 to 2,350	20.8%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	235	405	130 to 2,200	22.6%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	300	450	150 to 1,800	30.2%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	450	450	150 to 2,000	48.8%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	550	420	150 to 2,000	62.4%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	550	450	150 to 1,800	62.5%	1160
1878 (AH 1295)	550	450	150 to 2,000	62.9%	1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)	800	400	150 to 2,000	73.0%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	1,009	400	180 to 1,800	81.3%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	1,200	400	160 to 1,500	84.7%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.4%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	3,000	400	150 to 1,400	95.8%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	3,000	400	150 to 1,400	96.5%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.8%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.6%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.8%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	3,000	400	150 to 1,500	95.6%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	3,000	400	135 to 1,500	96.2%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	3,000	400	130 to 1,500	96.3%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	3,000	400	125 to 1,500	96.0%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	3,000	400	140 to 1,600	96.0%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	3,000	400	135 to 1,500	96.5%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	3,000	400	140 to 1,400	96.6%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	2,000	400	140 to 1,500	93.1%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	2,000	400	140 to 1,500	92.1%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	2,000	450	150 to 1,575	92.1%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	1,000	400	140 to 1,425	83.6%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	2,700	400	144 to 1,400	96.0%	1844

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Kalas9
1881 to 1890 (AH 1299 to 1307)
Korfu4
1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
Ragusa4
1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
Malta2
1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)
Barselona1
1896/97 (AH 1314)
Bükreş1
1898/99 (AH 1316)

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

Kalas3,000
Korfu3,000
Ragusa2,000
Malta3,000
Barselona2,000
Bükreş2,700

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

Tahrirat-ı Hariciye Evrak Kalemi mülazımı15
1862 to 1877 (AH 1279 to 1293)
Kalas başşehbenderi9
1881 to 1890 (AH 1299 to 1307)
Hariciye Nezareti tercümanı7
1876 to 1882 (AH 1293 to 1299)
Korfu başşehbenderi4
1889 to 1893 (AH 1307 to 1310)
Ragusa başşehbenderi4
1893 to 1897 (AH 1311 to 1314)
Malta başşehbenderi2
1892 to 1894 (AH 1310 to 1311)

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 officialsArtin Hazar Efendi born 1843/44 (AH 1259); highest salary 2,000 kuruş
Kalas3 other officialsKigork Efendi 4 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
1862/63 (AH 1279)84 other officialsMehmed Hilmi Efendi first annual entry 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 1,400 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Bebek Fransız Mektebi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

French · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]
Italian · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]
Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]
Turkish · Kitâbetokuryazar^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 0 (recorded code)^[source]
Judicial record as worded: 0 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)
BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 238, 239, 240

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