Rasim İspiro Efendi

Born 1850/51 (AH 1267) · Kemaliye (Eğin) · Dated entries 1862 to 1907 (AH 1279 to 1324)

Languages Arabic, Armenian, Rum (as recorded), Turkish

Archival reference BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 27/345

The career, year by year

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The life

Rasim İspiro Efendi was born in Kemaliye (Eğin) in 1850/51 (AH 1267), within the Hristiyan community. Schooling included Eğin Sıbyan Mektebi; özel hoca. The language repertoire included Arabic, Armenian, Rum (as recorded) and Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Jaffa (Yafa) in 1862/63 (AH 1279). Dated career entries span 1862/63 (AH 1279) to 1906/07 (AH 1324) across 32 AH years, from Yafa Rüsumat Müdüriyeti to İstanbul 6. Daire-i Belediye, beginning with Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı and ending with entries for belediye mal memuru. More than one post or place appears in 3 of those years. Place names include Yafa Rüsumat Müdüriyeti, Damascus (Şam), Beirut (Beyrut) and Bika and 4 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 800 kuruş in 1870/71 (AH 1287) to 1,900 kuruş in 1906/07 (AH 1324); the highest recorded monthly rate is 2,000 kuruş in 1887/88 (AH 1305).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Kemaliye (Eğin) · 1850/51 (AH 1267)^[source]
Education: Eğin Sıbyan Mektebi; özel hoca^[source]
First work: 1862/63 (AH 1279) · Jaffa (Yafa)^[source]
Age at first work: 12^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.

Career in numbers

32
Dated AH years: 9
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 31
Salary years: 800 → 1,900
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 2,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 92.5%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1870/71 (AH 1287) to 1906/07 (AH 1324); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1887/88 (AH 1305)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1906/07 (AH 1324).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 8 · Kemaliye (Eğin)

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1
1850/51 (AH 1267)
Kemaliye (Eğin)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1862/63 (AH 1279)
Jaffa (Yafa) / Yafa Rüsumat Müdüriyeti
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Yafa Rüsumat Müdüriyeti
1. Jaffa (Yafa)
  First work as recorded
  Calculated age 12
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Yafa Rüsumat Müdüriyeti
  Tahrirat Kalemi mülazımı
  Calculated age 12
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Damascus (Şam) / Beirut (Beyrut) / Bika
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Bika
1. Damascus (Şam)
  Rüsumat Müdüriyeti maiyeti
  Calculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Bika
  sancak merkez kâtibi
  800 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1872/73 (AH 1289) · 9 recorded years
Izmir (İzmir)
AH entries: 1289, 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293, 1294, 1295, 1296, 1297. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Muhasebe Kalemi kâtibi
  500 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Muhasebe Kalemi başkâtibi
  720 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 11 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1885/86 (AH 1303) · 2 recorded years
Çatalca
AH entries: 1303, 1304. Gaps remain open.
1. Sancak Muhasebecisi
  1,800 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Sancak Muhasebecisi
  1,800 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1887/88 (AH 1305)
Çatalca / İzmit
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Çatalca
  Sancak Muhasebecisi
  1,800 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. İzmit
  Sancak Muhasebecisi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1888/89 (AH 1306)
İzmit
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Sancak Muhasebecisi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. azl (Azil)
  Calculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1890/91 (AH 1308) · 17 recorded years
İstanbul 6. Daire-i Belediye
AH entries: 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316, 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İstanbul 6. Daire-i Belediye
1. belediye mal memuru
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. belediye mal memuru
  1,900 kuruşCalculated age 57
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 21 recorded entries in this stage →

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

gümrük memuru · Beyrut İthalat Gümrüğü · Undated · 395 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
istifa (İnfisal) · Bika · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

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Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1870/71 (AH 1287)	800	400	150 to 2,000	72.7%	649
1872/73 (AH 1289)	500	450	140 to 2,350	54.7%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	500	405	130 to 2,200	55.9%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	500	450	150 to 1,800	55.4%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	500	450	150 to 2,000	54.8%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	500	420	150 to 2,000	55.0%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	500	450	150 to 1,800	54.6%	1160
1878 (AH 1295)	500	450	150 to 2,000	54.4%	1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)	495	400	150 to 2,000	55.8%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	720	400	180 to 1,800	72.8%	1534
1885/86 (AH 1303)	1,800	400	150 to 1,500	92.5%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	1,800	400	150 to 1,500	92.3%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	2,000	400	150 to 1,500	92.2%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	2,000	400	135 to 1,500	92.7%	1797
1890/91 (AH 1308)	1,500	400	125 to 1,500	88.6%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	1,500	400	140 to 1,600	88.4%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	1,750	400	135 to 1,500	91.2%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	1,750	400	140 to 1,400	92.1%	1929
1894/95 (AH 1312)	1,750	400	140 to 1,500	91.9%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	1,750	400	140 to 1,500	91.0%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	1,750	450	150 to 1,575	90.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	1,800	400	140 to 1,425	92.4%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	1,800	400	144 to 1,400	92.6%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,800	400	140 to 1,440	92.8%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	1,800	400	140 to 1,500	92.4%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	1,800	400	150 to 1,520	91.2%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	1,800	400	150 to 1,500	92.8%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	1,800	405	150 to 1,450	92.5%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	1,800	400	135 to 1,500	91.8%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	1,800	430	125 to 1,500	91.9%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	1,900	450	150 to 1,525	92.5%	1371

Career patterns and pay

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

İstanbul 6. Daire-i Belediye17
1890 to 1907 (AH 1308 to 1324)
Izmir (İzmir)9
1872 to 1880 (AH 1289 to 1297)
Çatalca3
1885 to 1888 (AH 1303 to 1305)
İzmit2
1887 to 1889 (AH 1305 to 1306)
Beirut (Beyrut)1
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Bika1
1870/71 (AH 1287)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

İstanbul 6. Daire-i Belediye1,500 to 1,900
Izmir (İzmir)495 to 720
Çatalca1,800 to 2,000
İzmit2,000
Beirut (Beyrut)750
Bika800

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title

belediye mal memuru17
1890 to 1907 (AH 1308 to 1324)
Muhasebe Kalemi kâtibi9
1872 to 1880 (AH 1289 to 1297)
Sancak Muhasebecisi4
1885 to 1889 (AH 1303 to 1306)
Muhasebe Kalemi başkâtibi1
1879/80 (AH 1297)
Rüsumat Müdüriyeti maiyeti1
1870/71 (AH 1287)
Rüsumat Nezareti muhasebecisi1
1870/71 (AH 1287)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

Kemaliye (Eğin)73 other officialsMehmed Cemil Efendi born 1851/52 (AH 1268); highest salary 500 kuruş
Izmir (İzmir)31 other officialsAgop Efendi 9 shared years; highest salary 675 kuruş
1862/63 (AH 1279)84 other officialsMehmed Ali Rıza Efendi first annual entry 1862/63 (AH 1279); no salary recorded

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Education and personal record

Schooling Eğin Sıbyan Mektebi; özel hoca^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Arabic · biraz tekellüm^[source]
Armenian · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]
Rum (as recorded) · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]
Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahvâl Defterlerine göre Osmanlı bürokrasisinde Eğinli (Kemaliyeli) Devlet adamları (1820?1854)
ÖMER FERİT İMLAK · 2012 · Pages 97, 98
163 BOA. DH. SAİD. d. 27/345.

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