Individual dossier

Mehmet Sadri Efendi

0062_0003; 3Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record
A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Sadri Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1289. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1304 (15 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 5 distinct AH years between 1307 and 1311; it begins with Mukayyit in Istanbul (30 kuruş monthly). Kontrol Kalemi appears later, in AH 1309 (30 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

5 recorded AH years · 5 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years
  1. AH 1289
  2. AH 1304Birth-year difference: 15 AH years
  3. AH 1307–1308Birth-year difference: 18–19 AH years
  4. AH 1309–1311Birth-year difference: 20–22 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.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH
Annual career record begins at AH 1307

Mukayyit · istanbul · 30 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1304 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 30 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1304 · 1887 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
01530AH 1307AH 1308AH 1309AH 1310AH 1311AH 1307 · 1890 label: 30 kuruş / month · Mukayyit · istanbulAH 1308 · 1891 label: 30 kuruş / month · Mukayyit · istanbulAH 1309 · 1892 label: 30 kuruş / month · Kontrol Kalemi · istanbulAH 1310 · 1892 label: 30 kuruş / month · Kontrol Kalemi · istanbulAH 1311 · 1893 label: 30 kuruş / month · Kontrol 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 1304 · 1887 labelRecorded first-work anchoristanbul
Istanbul / Dersaadet: Source coordinate on AH 1307 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 Mukayyit → Kontrol Kalemi

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
3 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator
0
Telegraph school indicator
0
Father’s occupation
Muhasebe Memuru
Recorded birth year
AH 1289
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 1304 · 1887 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.

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)

  • Clerical and Administrative Staff
  • Technical and Engineering
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 fieldOriginal valueSource locator
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Recorded source-year values: 1307, 1308
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wordingTechnical and Engineeringseptember-occupation · occupation_cat
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Recorded source-year values: 1310, 1311
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingKaydi terkedildieda-memur · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1312
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingKontrol Kalemieda-memur · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1309, 1310, 1311
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMukayyiteda-memur · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1307, 1308
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingKaydi terkedildieda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1312
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingKontrol Kalemieda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1309, 1310, 1311
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wordingMukayyiteda-memureski · currentjob
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Recorded source-year values: 1307, 1308
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1307 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1308 · AH
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Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict0october10-personnel · criminal
AH 1310 · AH
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AH 1311 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1307 · AH
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AH 1308 · AH
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AH 1309 · AH
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AH 1310 · AH
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AH 1311 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1312 · AH
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AH 1307 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1308 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1309 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1310 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1311 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memur · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1307 · AH
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AH 1308 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1309 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1310 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1311 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1312 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1307 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1308 · AH
source lines 6974
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1309 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1310 · AH
source lines 6976
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1311 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0eda-memureski · criminal
AH 1312 · AH
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Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1307 · AH
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Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1308 · AH
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Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1310 · AH
source lines 31891
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion0october10-personnel · criminal_record_times
AH 1311 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1307 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1308 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1310 · AH
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adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi
AH 1311 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1307 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1308 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1310 · AH
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criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion0september-occupation · criminal
AH 1311 · AH
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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 · 5 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 (80)
FieldOriginal stored valueSource field and lines
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birthplace
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birthPlacedersaadetrecovered · birth_place
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birthProvincedersaadetrecovered · birth_vilayet
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schoolRusdiye Mektebirecovered · school_type
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schoolingYears7recovered · education_year
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schoolingYears7recovered · school_year
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apprenticeshipYears3recovered · mulazemet
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qualification0recovered · qualification
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derivedQualificationFlag0recovered · has_qualification
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telegraphSchool0recovered · telgraf
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religionMuslumanrecovered · religion
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nationalityTurkishrecovered · nationality
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fatherJobMuhasebe Memururecovered · fatherjob
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fatherJobmuhasebe memururecovered · father_job
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firstWorkH1304recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili
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firstWorkG1887recovered · firstjobyear
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firstWorkPlaceistanbulrecovered · firstjob_place
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firstWorkSalary30recovered · firstjob_wage
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nameMehmet Sadri Efendi september · İsim
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apprenticeshipYears3september · MülazemetSüresi
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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.

Cite this record

Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Sadri Efendi”, archival reference 0062_0003; 3, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-71c26623cceb72f4/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-71c26623cceb72f4/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.