Mahmut Refet Efendi
Mahmut Refet Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1303. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1322 (19 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1323 and 1324; it begins with posta memuru in Kumkapi (100 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1303
- AH 1322Birth-year difference: 19 AH years
- AH 1323–1324Birth-year difference: 20–21 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 · AHposta memuru · kumkapi · 100 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1322 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 100 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
- 1 source-recorded year
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- imam
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1303
- 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 1322 · 1904 label
- Place
- istanbul
- First-salary field
- 100 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)
- Postal Service
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.
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| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Postal Service | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 37549, 37550 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | posta memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 38796, 38797 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | posta memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 38796, 38797 Recorded source-year values: 1323, 1324 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 63425 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 64800 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 38796 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38797 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 38796 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38797 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 38796 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 38797 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 38796 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 38797 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 63425 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1324 · AH source lines 64800 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 37549 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1324 · AH source lines 37550 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 37549 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1324 · AH source lines 37550 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | posta memuru | kumkapi | 100 | recovered line 35216 | |
| 1906 | posta memuru | kumkapi | 100 | recovered line 35217 |
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 · 1 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 | 1303 | recovered · dobirth source lines 35216, 35217 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birthplace source lines 35216, 35217 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birth_place source lines 35216, 35217 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 35216, 35217 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 35216, 35217 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 35216, 35217 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 35216, 35217 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 35216, 35217 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 35216, 35217 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 35216, 35217 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 35216, 35217 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 35216, 35217 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 35216, 35217 |
| fatherJob | imam | recovered · fatherjob source lines 35216, 35217 |
| fatherJob | imam | recovered · father_job source lines 35216, 35217 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 35216, 35217 |
| firstWorkG | 1904 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 35216, 35217 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 35216, 35217 |
| firstWorkSalary | 100 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 35216, 35217 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 35216, 35217 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 35216, 35217 |
| name | Mahmut Refet Efendi | september · İsim source lines 37549, 37550 |
| birthH | 1303 | september · dobirth source lines 37549, 37550 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | september · birthplace source lines 37549, 37550 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | september · birth_vilayet source lines 37549, 37550 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 37549, 37550 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 37549, 37550 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · mulazemet source lines 37549, 37550 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 37549, 37550 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 37549, 37550 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 37549, 37550 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 37549, 37550 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 37549, 37550 |
| fatherJob | imam | september · fatherjob source lines 37549, 37550 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | september · firstjob_year source lines 37549, 37550 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | september · firstjob_place source lines 37549, 37550 |
| firstWorkSalary | 100 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 37549, 37550 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 37549, 37550 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 37549, 37550 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 37549, 37550 |
| name | Mahmut Refet Efendi | older · İsim source lines 17046, 20906 |
| birthH | 1303 | older · dobirth source lines 17046, 20906 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | older · birthplace source lines 17046, 20906 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | older · birth_vilayet source lines 17046, 20906 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 17046, 20906 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 17046, 20906 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 17046, 20906 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 17046, 20906 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 17046, 20906 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 17046, 20906 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 17046, 20906 |
| fatherJob | imam | older · fatherjob source lines 17046, 20906 |
| firstWorkH | 1322 | older · firstjob_year source lines 17046, 20906 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | older · firstjob_place source lines 17046, 20906 |
| firstWorkSalary | 100 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 17046, 20906 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 17046, 20906 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 17046, 20906 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 17046, 20906 |
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, “Mahmut Refet Efendi”, archival reference 149-153-301, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-4b659f55085621d5/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-4b659f55085621d5/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.