Individual dossier

Mustafa Arif Efendi

116_85; 167Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mustafa Arif Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1299. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1312 (13 AH years after the recorded birth year), with “Telgraf” as first-job wording. The surviving career record covers 4 distinct AH years between 1314 and 1317; it begins with Evrak Kalemi in Istanbul (30 kuruş monthly). Muhasebe Kalemi appears later, in AH 1317 (150 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); French: Tekellum (speaking); Nemce: Tekellum (speaking).

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Life and career

4 recorded AH years · 4 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1299
  2. AH 1312Birth-year difference: 13 AH years
  3. AH 1314–1316Birth-year difference: 15–17 AH years
  4. AH 1317Birth-year difference: 18 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.

2 of 6

Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1314

Evrak Kalemi · istanbul · 30 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1312 in istanbul (Telgraf). The first-salary field is 30 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1312 · 1894 labelTelgrafistanbul
075150AH 1314AH 1315AH 1316AH 1317AH 1314 · 1896 label: 30 kuruş / month · Evrak Kalemi · istanbulAH 1315 · 1897 label: 30 kuruş / month · Evrak Kalemi · istanbulAH 1316 · 1898 label: 30 kuruş / month · Evrak Kalemi · istanbulAH 1317 · 1899 label: 150 kuruş / month · Muhasebe Kalemi · istanbul

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

AH 1312 · 1894 labelTelgrafistanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1314 annual entry; ambiguousIstanbul / Dersaadet

◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations

  • Locality record

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.

Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes

Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.

  1. Title Evrak Kalemi → Muhasebe Kalemi

    Salary 30 to 150 kuruş +120 (+400%)

A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.

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.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme
Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration
7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship
2 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
1
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Not recorded
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.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date
AH 1312 · 1894 label
Place
istanbul
First-salary field
30 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.

Original personnel workbook

Recorded first job

Department / title wording
Telgraf
Workbook first-job year
1312 (source year)
Associated salary field
30 kuruş

Source-labelled first-work department/title and associated salary. This amount is separate from the inherited first-salary field and from the first positive annual salary row; payment status and department date need source review.

This record supports the limited workbook-labelled PT-start alignment at AH 1312. Its source department is Telgraf; the appointment and paid-service start have not been independently adjudicated.

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Recorded language repertoire

3 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish
Kitabet (writing)
French
Tekellum (speaking)
Nemce
Tekellum (speaking)

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)

  • Clerical and Administrative Staff
  • Financial and Accounting
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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 fieldOriginal valueSource locator
adlisicilkaydi (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DS
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Recorded source-year values: 1318
Recorded language term: FrenchRecorded source wordingTekellumsupplemental-workbook · K
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cells Sheet1!K4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
Recorded language term: TurkishRecorded source wordingKitabetsupplemental-workbook · BD
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Recorded source-year values: 1318
liyakatveEhliyetDerecesi (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels1supplemental-workbook · CT
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Recorded source-year values: 1318
madalya (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DQ
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cells Sheet1!DQ4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
mecidinisani (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DO
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cells Sheet1!DO4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
Recorded language term: NemceRecorded source wordingTekellumsupplemental-workbook · CH
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cells Sheet1!CH4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
nisanialiosmani (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DP
source lines 4283
cells Sheet1!DP4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
rutbe (original workbook field; numeric code, label unverified)Unverified code labels0supplemental-workbook · DN
source lines 4283
cells Sheet1!DN4283
Recorded source-year values: 1318
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingClerical and Administrative Staffseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
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Recorded source-year values: 1314, 1315, 1316
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingFinancial and Accountingseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
source lines 34390
Recorded source-year values: 1317
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingEvrak Kalemieda-memur · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1314, 1315, 1316
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhasebe Kalemieda-memur · currentjob
source lines 35489
Recorded source-year values: 1317
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingEvrak Kalemieda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1314, 1315, 1316
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMuhasebe Kalemieda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1317
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1314 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1315 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 46602
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 49056
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 35486
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 35487
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 35488
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 35489
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 35490
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 35486
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 35487
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 35488
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 35489
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 35490
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 35486
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 35487
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 35488
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 35489
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 35490
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 35486
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 35487
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 35488
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 35489
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1319 · AH
source lines 35490
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 41565
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 44091, 44092
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 46602
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 49056
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 34391
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 34389, 34393
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 34392
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 34390
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1314 · AH
source lines 34391
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1315 · AH
source lines 34389, 34393
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1316 · AH
source lines 34392
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1317 · AH
source lines 34390
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0supplemental-workbook · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1318 · AH
source lines 4283
cells Sheet1!DS4283

Evidence & edition

Coded extracts, preserved source differences

Collection membership

Website edition
ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
Source editions
older, september, recovered, supplemental
Annual display source
Recovered merged personnel extract
Paper sample
Included · 4 annual entries
Other archival labels
No different label recorded
Geography
Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence

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.

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All substantive source assertions (82)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
birthH1299recovered · dobirth
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
apprenticeshipYears2recovered · mulazemet
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
qualification1recovered · qualification
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
derivedQualificationFlag1recovered · has_qualification
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
firstWorkH1312recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
firstWorkG1894recovered · firstjobyear
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
firstWorkSalary30recovered · firstjob_wage
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
birthLatitude41.08488985821407recovered · lat_birth_place
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
birthLongitude29.056960217582365recovered · lon_birth_place
source lines 32311, 32312, 32313, 32314
nameMustafa Arif Efendi september · İsim
source lines 34389, 34390, 34391, 34392, 34393
birthH1299september · dobirth
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birthPlacedersaadetseptember · birthplace
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birthProvincedersaadetseptember · birth_vilayet
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schoolrusdiye mektebiseptember · school_type
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schoolingYears7september · education_year
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apprenticeshipYears2september · mulazemet
source lines 34389, 34390, 34391, 34392, 34393
apprenticeshipYears2september · MülazemetSüresi
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qualification1september · qualification
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telegraphSchool0september · telegraph_school
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religionmuslumanseptember · religion
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nationalityturkishseptember · nationality
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firstWorkH1312september · firstjob_year
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firstWorkPlaceistanbulseptember · firstjob_place
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firstWorkSalary30september · firstjob_wage
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birthLatitude41.08488985821407september · lat_birth_place
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language:TurkishKitabetseptember · lang_turkish
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derivedLanguageCode:Arabic0september · lang_arabic2
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language:FrenchTekellumseptember · lang_french
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derivedLanguageCode:Greek0september · lang_greek2
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nameMustafa Arif Efendi older · İsim
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birthPlacedersaadetolder · birthplace
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birthProvincedersaadetolder · birth_vilayet
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firstWorkH1312supplemental · firstjob_year
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firstJobTitleTelgrafsupplemental · firstjob
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firstJobSalary30supplemental · firstjob_salary
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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.

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Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mustafa Arif Efendi”, archival reference 116_85; 167, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-4d7666531f0671d5/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-4d7666531f0671d5/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.