Official
Mehmet İzzet Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1862/63 (AH 1279). On record 1889 to 1894, 5 annual entries. Death recorded 1894/95.
Archive reference 0065_0126; 249
Life#
Mehmet İzzet Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1862/63 (AH 1279), into the Muslim (Müslüman) community. Schooling took seven years, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi).
Work began in Istanbul in 1889/90, at about 27, paid from the start, on 200 kuruş a month. Every annual entry from 1889/90 to 1893/94 places Mehmet İzzet in the same post, official for incoming items (Mevrude Memuru), in Istanbul, the birthplace.
Pay rose from 100 kuruş a month in 1889/90 to a peak of 140 in 1893/94, as Mevrude Memuru in Istanbul, when 6 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over five years the salaries add up to 7,200 kuruş, 24 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The last annual entry is for 1893/94; the list of 1894/95 (AH 1312) gives the status word Vefat (death).
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90 | 100 | 500 | 300 | 2% |
| 1890/91 | 120 | 500 | 300 | 4% |
| 1891/92 | 120 | 500 | 312.5 | 5% |
| 1892/93 | 120 | 500 | 300 | 5% |
| 1893/94 | 140 | 500 | 312.5 | 6% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90AH 1307 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 200first-salary field |
| 1889 to 1894AH 1307 to 1311 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 to 140 |
| 1894/95AH 1312 | Death recorded | ||
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1862/63 (AH 1279)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Death recorded
- 1894/95 (AH 1312)the year of the annual list with the word Vefat, not a date of death
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
- 1889/90 (AH 1307)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 200
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 place, same years
Of the 659 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, Mehmet İzzet Efendi had the 637th highest salary.
- Hasan Ali Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- İbrahim Selim Susa Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 15,000 kuruş
- Albert Karol Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 9,028 kuruş
- Emil Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 9,000 kuruş
- Salahattin Bey5 shared years; highest salary 7,800 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 24 officials with the title Mevrude Memuru in the same years, Mehmet İzzet Efendi had the lowest salary.
- İstapan Parunaki Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,550 kuruş
- Mehmet Mazhar Bey5 shared years; highest salary 900 kuruş
- Ali Haydar Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Supun Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 350 kuruş
- Mehmet Ali Efendi4 shared years; highest salary 700 kuruş
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; Mehmet İzzet Efendi had the 2,985th highest salary of them.
- Abdullah Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abdullah Talat Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Abdüllatif Lütfü Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abdülvahhab Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 550 kuruş
- Abrik Nadir Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 300 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 1,999 officials born in Istanbul, 1,997 have a recorded salary; Mehmet İzzet Efendi had the 1,778th highest salary of them.
- Ali Galib Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 600 kuruş
- Ali Galip Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 2,250 kuruş
- Ali Haydar Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 450 kuruş
- Arif Cemil Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Asım Efendiborn 1862/63 (AH 1279); highest salary 600 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 116 officials whose first annual entry is for 1889/90 (AH 1307), Mehmet İzzet Efendi had the 111th highest salary.
- Hafız Vasfi Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Necip Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- İbrahim Ethem Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 900 kuruş
- Salih Tevfik Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 475 kuruş
- Osman Şevki Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 500 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (5)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0065_0126; 249 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 120 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0065_0126; 249 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 120 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0065_0126; 249 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 120 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0065_0126; 249 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Mevrude Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 140 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0065_0126; 249 |
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 (14)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet İzzet Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1279 | 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) | 1307 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1890 | 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) | 200 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Status | ||
| Death recorded under the year (AH) | 1312 | Earlier annual personnel extract (original copy); Earlier annual personnel extract (parallel copy) |
What the sources named in this table are
- 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.
- 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.
- 5 annual entries of 5 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 İzzet Efendi
- Official for incoming items (Mevrude Memuru)
- 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)