Official
Mehmet Midhat Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Bijelo Polje (Akova) in 1879/80 (AH 1297). On record 1905 to 1908, 3 annual entries.
Archive reference 159-210-415
Life#
Mehmet Midhat Efendi was born in Bijelo Polje (Akova) in 1879/80 (AH 1297) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community; the father was a district governor or lieutenant colonel (kaymakam). Schooling took 12 years, at Darüşşafaka, the school for orphans in Istanbul; Mehmet Midhat also attended the telegraph school, and wrote French, Persian and Turkish.
Work began in Istanbul in 1905/06, at about 25, paid from the start, on 340 kuruş a month. Every annual entry from 1905/06 to 1907/08 places Mehmet Midhat in the same post, letters official (Mekâtib Memuru), in Istanbul.
The salary went from 300 kuruş a month in 1905/06 to 400 in 1907/08, the peak, as Mekâtib Memuru in Istanbul, when 56 per cent of paid officials earned less. The final annual entry is for 1907/08.
Places in order of time#
Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.
Born 1879/80 (AH 1297)
First work 1905/06 (AH 1323); 1905 to 1908 (AH 1323 to 1325)
300 to 400 kuruş a month; entries in 3 years
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, and the median of the same province for the years in which at least 5 officials were paid in the province of the official's salary that year.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Median, same province | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905/06 | 300 | 475 | 300 | 425 | 23% |
| 1906/07 | 340 | 450 | 300 | 470 | 35% |
| 1907/08 | 400 | 300 | 110 | 300 | 56% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1905/06AH 1323 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 340first-salary field |
| 1905 to 1908AH 1323 to 1325 | Mekâtib Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 to 400 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1879/80 (AH 1297)
- Birthplace
- Bijelo Polje (Akova)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Kaymakam
Education
- Darüşşafaka
- Darüşşafaka (12 years)Darüşşafaka (school for orphans in Istanbul)
- Higher or professional
- Telgraf Mektebitelegraph school; recorded as a code
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Darüşşafaka
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Persian
- Kitabetwriting
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1905/06 (AH 1323)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 340
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 post (job title and place), same years
Of the 31 officials who held Mekâtib Memuru in Istanbul in the same years, Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the 8th highest salary.
- Abdullah Hilmi Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ahmet Halit Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 720 kuruş
- İbrahim Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hüseyin Halil Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 140 kuruş
Same place, same years
Of the 571 officials with entries in Istanbul in the same years, Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the 285th highest salary.
- Abdurrahman Serafettin Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 25,000 kuruş
- Hüseyin Hasip Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 20,000 kuruş
- Suleyman Resat Bey3 shared years; highest salary 7,000 kuruş
- Hasan Ferit Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
- Melkok Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 5,000 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 40 officials with the title Mekâtib Memuru in the same years, Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the 12th highest salary.
- Abdullah Hilmi Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 300 kuruş
- Ahmet Halit Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 720 kuruş
- Ömer Neşet Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 650 kuruş
- İbrahim Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
Same school
Of the 203 officials with Darüşşafaka among their schools, Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the 116th highest salary.
- Mehmet Arif Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Fuat Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Sadık Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 340 kuruş
- Mehmet Vasfi Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 340 kuruş
- Mustafa Fahrettin Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 400 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 2 officials born in Bijelo Polje (Akova), Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the highest salary.
- Adem Hilmi Efendiborn 1893/94 (AH 1311); highest salary 200 kuruş
The page of Bijelo Polje (Akova), with the 2 officials born there
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 117 officials whose first annual entry is for 1905/06 (AH 1323), Mehmet Midhat Efendi had the 20th highest salary.
- Mehmet Sadık Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 340 kuruş
- Mahmut Asım Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 250 kuruş
- Süleyman Şevket Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 100 kuruş
- İbrahim Eşref Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Abdürreşid Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 340 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (3)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Mekâtib Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 159-210-415 |
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Mekâtib Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 340 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 159-210-415 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Mekâtib Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 159-210-415 |
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 (15)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Midhat Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1297 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | akova | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | kosova | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Kaymakam | 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 | Darussafaka | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 12 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Telegraph school (recorded code) | 1 | Recovered annual personnel 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) | 1323 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1905 | 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) | 340 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- 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.
- 1 annual entry of 3 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 Midhat Efendi
- Letters official (Mekâtib Memuru)
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Bijelo Polje (Akova)
- Darüşşafaka
- 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)