Official
Mehmet Nazım Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1865/66 (AH 1282). On record 1893 to 1901, 8 annual entries.
Archive reference 89_105; 207
Life#
Mehmet Nazım Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1865/66 (AH 1282), into the Muslim (Müslüman) community. Schooling took seven years, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi).
Work began in Kastamonu in 1893/94, at about 28, paid from the start, on 400 kuruş a month. Every annual entry from 1893/94 to 1900/01 places Mehmet Nazım in the same post, communications official (Muhabere Memuru), in Kastamonu.
The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 400 kuruş a month in 1893/94, as Muhabere Memuru in Kastamonu, when 30 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1900/01.
Places in order of time#
Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.
Born 1865/66 (AH 1282)
First work 1893/94 (AH 1311); 1893 to 1901 (AH 1311 to 1318)
400 kuruş a month; entries in 8 years
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, and the median of the same province for the years in which at least 5 officials were paid in the province of the official's salary that year.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893/94 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 475 | 30% |
| 1894/95 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 500 | 30% |
| 1895/96 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 450 | 30% |
| 1896/97 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 462.5 | 32% |
| 1897/98 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 450 | 32% |
| 1898/99 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 475 | 31% |
| 1899/1900 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 475 | 31% |
| 1900/01 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 475 | 31% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1893/94AH 1311 | First work | Kastamonu | 400first-salary field |
| 1893 to 1901AH 1311 to 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1865/66 (AH 1282)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1893/94 (AH 1311)
- Place
- Kastamonu
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 400
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 post (job title and place), same years
Of the 20 officials who held Muhabere Memuru in Kastamonu in the same years, Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 12th highest salary.
- Osman Behçet Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmet Rifat Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 475 kuruş
- Emin Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ziya Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Ziya Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 380 kuruş
Same place, same years
Of the 42 officials with entries in Kastamonu in the same years, Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 33rd highest salary.
- Osman Behçet Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Ahmet Rifat Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 475 kuruş
- Ahmet Rifat Efendi7 shared years; highest salary 517 kuruş
- Şefik Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,800 kuruş
- Bekir Feyzi Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 1,467 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 1,068th highest salary.
- Mehmet Arif Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 3,600 kuruş
- Mehmet Hulusi Bey8 shared years; highest salary 2,600 kuruş
- Ali Galip Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 2,500 kuruş
- Mustafa Fazıl Bey8 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Mehmet Sadullah Efendi8 shared years; highest salary 1,650 kuruş
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 1,725th highest salary of them.
- Abdulkadir Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 750 kuruş
- Abdullah Sıtkı Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abdurrahman Faik Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Abdurrahman Feyzi Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 720 kuruş
- Ahmet Şefik Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 600 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 1,999 officials born in Istanbul, 1,997 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 1,196th highest salary of them.
- Abdulkadir Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 750 kuruş
- Ahmet Şevki Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Ali Naci Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 200 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Erdetsi Ohanyan Efendiborn 1865/66 (AH 1282); highest salary 600 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 162 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311), Mehmet Nazım Efendi had the 113th highest salary.
- Mehmet Fikri Efendifirst entry in Shkodër (İşkodra); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmet Tevfik Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hamit Efendifirst entry in Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde); highest salary 750 kuruş
- Mehmet İhsan Efendifirst entry in Al Hudaydah (Hudeyde); highest salary 750 kuruş
- Bekir Sami Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 900 kuruş
All 162 officials whose first annual entry is for 1893/94 (AH 1311)
Full record
Annual entries (8)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Kastamonu | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 89_105; 207 |
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 (13)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Nazım Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1282 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | 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) | 1311 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1893 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Kastamonu | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 400 | 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.
- 8 annual entries of 8 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
- Mehmet Nazım Efendi
- Communications official (Muhabere Memuru)
- Kastamonu
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Rüşdiye school (Rüşdiye Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- 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)