Official
Adolf Koper Efendi
Christian (Hristiyan). Born in Buruksel in 1835/36 (AH 1251). On record 1859 to 1870, 11 annual entries.
Archive reference 0002_0198; 393
Life#
Adolf Koper Efendi was born in Buruksel in 1835/36 (AH 1251). The record gives the community as Christian (Hristiyan) and the nationality as Belcika.
Schooling recorded: Ticaret Mektebi (School of Commerce), with 12 years of schooling recorded, at a place worded Buruksel. 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 Kitabet; Nemçe (as recorded), with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Bitola (Manastır) in 1859/60 (AH 1276): Telgraf. The official was then about 24 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 1,000 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1859/60, the official was about 24 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1859/60, shows 2. Müdür in Bitola, with 1,000 kuruş a month. In 1863/64 the record shows Müdür in Diyarbakır, the salary going from 1,000 to 2,500 kuruş a month (before: 2. Müdür in Bitola). In 1864/65 the record shows Müdür in Shkodër (İşkodra), the salary going from 2,500 to 2,600 kuruş a month (before: Müdür in Diyarbakır). In 1869/70 the record shows Simendifer Komiseri, the salary going from 2,600 to 3,000 kuruş a month (before: Müdür in Shkodër).
The highest salary, 3,000 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1869/70 as Simendifer Komiseri. 96 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 600 kuruş. Over 11 years with a salary the median is 2,600 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 1,500 kuruş, is seen in 1863/64. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 11.61 per cent a year on average.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1835/36 (AH 1251)
- Birthplace
- Buruksel
- Community
- Christian (Hristiyan)
- Nationality as recorded
- Belcika
Education
- Higher or professional
- Ticaret Mektebi (12 years)School of Commerce; place of the school as worded: Buruksel
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Other High
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Italian
- Kitabetwriting
- Nemçe (as recorded)
- Kitabetwriting. The column nemce of the cross-ministry workbook. Nemçe is the Ottoman word for Austria and the Austrians; the workbook has a separate column for German (almanca), so the word is kept as recorded
- 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
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1859/60 (AH 1276)
- Place
- Bitola (Manastır)
- First job as worded
- Telgraf
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 24
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 1000
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 1000
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1859/60AH 1276 | Telgraffirst work | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000first-salary field |
| 1859 to 1863AH 1276 to 1279 | 2. Müdür | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000 |
| 1863/64AH 1280 | Müdür | Diyarbakır | 2,500 |
| 1864 to 1869AH 1281 to 1285 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 |
| 1869/70AH 1286 | Simendifer Komiseri | 3,000 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1859/60 | 1,000 | 500 | 74% | |
| 1860/61 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 66% |
| 1861/62 | 1,000 | 600 | 1,000 | 61% |
| 1862/63 | 1,000 | 500 | 1,000 | 63% |
| 1863/64 | 2,500 | 500 | 1,925 | 92% |
| 1864/65 | 2,600 | 625 | 2,000 | 93% |
| 1865/66 | 2,600 | 650 | 1,825 | 92% |
| 1866/67 | 2,600 | 600 | 2,200 | 94% |
| 1867/68 | 2,600 | 600 | 2,060 | 95% |
| 1868/69 | 2,600 | 600 | 1,960 | 95% |
| 1869/70 | 3,000 | 600 | 96% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Not drawn. Outside the map: Buruksel.
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Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mehmet Salih EfendiShkodër (İşkodra), 5 shared years
- Nikola Yunani EfendiShkodër (İşkodra), 5 shared years
- Eşref Bahtiyar EfendiShkodër (İşkodra), 2 shared years
- Tayyib Hilmi EfendiShkodër (İşkodra), 2 shared years
- Ahmet Cavit BeyShkodër (İşkodra), 2 shared years
16 officials in all. Officials recorded in Shkodër (İşkodra)
Same school recorded
- Apostolaki Cizli EfendiTicaret Mektebi, first annual entry 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- Melkon iskender EfendiTicaret Mektebi, first annual entry 1871/72 (AH 1288)
- Bekir Sami EfendiTicaret Mektebi, first annual entry 1893/94 (AH 1311)
- Mahmut Kâmil EfendiTicaret Mektebi, first annual entry 1906/07 (AH 1324)
- Sarkiz Çalyan EfendiTicaret Mektebi, first annual entry 1907/08 (AH 1325)
6 officials in all. Officials with Ticaret Mektebi recorded
Full record
Annual entries (11)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1859/60AH 1276 | 2. Müdür | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1860/61AH 1277 | 2. Müdür | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1861/62AH 1278 | 2. Müdür | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1862/63AH 1279 | 2. Müdür | Bitola (Manastır) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1863/64AH 1280 | Müdür | Diyarbakır | 2,500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1864/65AH 1281 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1865/66AH 1282 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1866/67AH 1283 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1867/68AH 1284 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1868/69AH 1285 | Müdür | Shkodër (İşkodra) | 2,600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0002_0198; 393 |
| 1869/70AH 1286 | Simendifer Komiseri | 3,000 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0002_0198; 393 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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 (19)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Adolf Koper Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1251 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | buruksel | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | belcika | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | ticaret mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Place of the school | Buruksel | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 12 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1276 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1860 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Manastir | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | Manastir | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | Manastir | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | Manastir | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Telgraf | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 24 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 1000 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 1000 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.