Official
Kostantin Efendi
Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum). Born in Thessaloniki (Selanik) in 1861/62 (AH 1278). On record 1891 to 1902, 10 annual entries. Death recorded 1901/02.
Archive reference 0062_0102; 201
Life#
Kostantin Efendi was born in Thessaloniki (Selanik) in 1861/62 (AH 1278). The record gives the community as Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum).
Schooling recorded: Millet Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Greek (Rum), with Tekellum; Italian, with Tekellum; Turkish, with Tekellum.
First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1887/88 (AH 1305). The official was then about 26 years old. The record gives 4 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 380 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1891/92, the official was about 30 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1891/92, shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Rhodes (Rodos), with 380 kuruş a month. In 1896/97 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Beyoğlu, with 380 kuruş a month (before: Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Rhodes). In 1898/99 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Samos (Sisam), the salary going from 380 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Beyoğlu). In 1900/01 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Konya, the salary going from 500 to 300 kuruş a month (before: Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Samos). In 1901/02 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Urla, the salary going from 300 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Konya). No annual entry is recorded for 1899/1900.
The highest salary, 500 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1898/99 as Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti. 48 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 10 years with a salary the median is 380 kuruş a month, with 2 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 200 kuruş, is seen in 1901/02. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 2.78 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1901/02, when 49 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
A death is recorded under 1901/02 (AH 1319): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1861/62 (AH 1278)
- Birthplace
- Thessaloniki (Selanik)
- Community
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- Nationality as recorded
- Rum
- Death recorded
- 1901/02 (AH 1319)the year of the annual list with the word Vefat, not a date of death
Education
- Community school
- Millet Mektebi (4 years)community school (school of a non-Muslim community)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 4 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives yes.
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Italian
- Tekellumspeaking
- Greek (Rum)
- Tekellumspeaking. Rum is the word of the records for Greek as spoken by the Orthodox Christians of the empire. It is kept apart from the column Greek, which the records also have
- Turkish
- Tekellumspeaking
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1887/88 (AH 1305)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 380
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Okuma Bilmemesi / Türkçe okuyup yazmağa muktedir olmamasına ve posta muamelatına adem-i vukufuna mebni bin üç yüz on yedi senesi Muharreminin yirmi yedisinde 25 Mayıs sene 1315 açığa çıkarıldığı Telgraf
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1318; 1319
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1887/88AH 1305 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 380first-salary field |
| 1891 to 1896AH 1309 to 1313 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 |
| 1896 to 1898AH 1314 to 1315 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Beyoğlu | 380 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Samos (Sisam) | 500 |
| No annual entry: 1899/1900 (AH 1317) | |||
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Konya | 300 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Urla | 500 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Death recorded | ||
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891/92 | 380 | 500 | 500 | 24% |
| 1892/93 | 380 | 500 | 500 | 24% |
| 1893/94 | 380 | 500 | 500 | 25% |
| 1894/95 | 380 | 500 | 500 | 26% |
| 1895/96 | 380 | 500 | 500 | 26% |
| 1896/97 | 380 | 500 | 495 | 28% |
| 1897/98 | 380 | 500 | 480 | 29% |
| 1898/99 | 500 | 500 | 495 | 48% |
| 1900/01 | 300 | 500 | 500 | 18% |
| 1901/02 | 500 | 500 | 480 | 49% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Remzi EfendiRhodes (Rodos) and 1 other place, 5 shared years
- Corci Asaf EfendiRhodes (Rodos), 5 shared years
- Ali Saib BeyRhodes (Rodos), 4 shared years
- Abdülkerim EfendiBeyoğlu, 2 shared years
- Behor Menahim EfendiBeyoğlu, 2 shared years
156 officials in all. Officials recorded in Rhodes (Rodos)
Same school recorded
- Dikran Artinyan EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309)
- Halil Fazıl EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309)
- Hanna Afif EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309)
- Mihran EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309)
- Osekhan EfendiMillet Mektebi, first annual entry 1891/92 (AH 1309)
262 officials in all. Officials with Millet Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Anastaş EfendiThessaloniki (Selanik), born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Hasan Nazmi EfendiThessaloniki (Selanik), born 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Necip EfendiThessaloniki (Selanik), born 1859/60 (AH 1276)
- Dadi Fransuva EfendiThessaloniki (Selanik), born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Osman EfendiThessaloniki (Selanik), born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
64 officials in all. Officials born in Thessaloniki (Selanik)
Full record
Annual entries (10)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1895/96AH 1313 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Rhodes (Rodos) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Beyoğlu | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Beyoğlu | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Samos (Sisam) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Konya | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Urla | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0062_0102; 201 |
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 (16)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Kostantin Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1278 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | selanik | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | selanik | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Rum | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Millet Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1305 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1888 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 380 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Okuma Bilmemesi / Türkçe okuyup yazmağa muktedir olmamasına ve posta muamelatına adem-i vukufuna mebni bin üç yüz on yedi senesi Muharreminin yirmi yedisinde 25 Mayıs sene 1315 açığa çıkarıldığı Telgraf | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1318; 1319 | Later annual personnel extract |
| Status | ||
| Death recorded under the year (AH) | 1319 | Earlier annual personnel extract (original copy); Earlier annual personnel extract (parallel copy) |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- Earlier annual personnel extract (original copy)
- A copy of the earlier annual personnel file, read for the title wording of each year. A death taken from it is the status word Vefat in the title field of one annual list: the year is the year of that list, not a date of death.
- Earlier annual personnel extract (parallel copy)
- A second copy of the earlier annual personnel file, read in the same way. A death taken from it is the status word Vefat in the title field of one annual list: the year is the year of that list, not a date of death. Two copies that agree are one piece of evidence, not two.
- Later annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
- 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.
- 10 annual entries of 10 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.