Mehmet Kâşif Efendi

Born 1860/61 (AH 1277) · Silistra (Silistre) · Dated entries 1883 to 1910 (AH 1301 to 1327)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmet Kâşif Efendi was born in Silistra (Silistre) in 1860/61 (AH 1277). The father’s occupation was Soğancı. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi (şahadetname). The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

The first place of work was Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi. Dated career entries span 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1909/10 (AH 1327) across 27 AH years, from Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi to İstihbar Kalemi, beginning with Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru and ending with entries for İstihbar Kalemi muhayyeri. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi, Matbuat and İstihbar Kalemi.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 50 kuruş in 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1,500 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,500 kuruş in 1909/10 (AH 1327).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Silistra (Silistre) · 1860/61 (AH 1277)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Soğancı^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi (şahadetname)^[source]
First work: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi^[source]

Career in numbers

27
Dated AH years: 4
Career place names: 3
Entries without a resolved year: 14
Salary years: 50 → 1,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 79.9%
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. 1883/84 (AH 1301) to 1909/10 (AH 1327); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1909/10 (AH 1327)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1909/10 (AH 1327).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 7 · Silistra (Silistre)

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1
1860/61 (AH 1277)
Silistra (Silistre)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1883/84 (AH 1301) · 8 recorded years
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
AH entries: 1301, 1302, 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306, 1307, 1308. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
1. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  50 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  Calculated age 31
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 10 recorded entries in this stage →
3
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi / Takvim-i Vekayi İdaresi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi; Takvim-i Vekayi İdaresi
1. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
  Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  Calculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Takvim-i Vekayi İdaresi
  Takvim-i Vekayi Heyet-i İdaresi memuru (ilave-i memurin) (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 32
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4
1892/93 (AH 1310) · 7 recorded years
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
AH entries: 1310, 1311, 1312, 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
1. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  Calculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  610 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 13 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1899/1900 (AH 1317) · 5 recorded years
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi / Matbuat
AH entries: 1317, 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi; Matbuat
1. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
  Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru
  Calculated age 40
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
  Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi muhayyer sanisi
  Calculated age 44
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 13 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1904/05 (AH 1322) · 5 recorded years
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
AH entries: 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi
1. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi muhayyer sanisi
  Calculated age 45
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi muhayyer sanisi
  1,075 kuruşCalculated age 49
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1909/10 (AH 1327)
İstihbar Kalemi
Not yet located on the map: İstihbar Kalemi
1. İstihbar Kalemi muhayyeri
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 50
  Entry & evidence →[1]

4 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.

mülazım (Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi) · Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi · Undated Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Takvim-i Vekayi Heyet-i İdaresi memuru (ilave-i memurin) · Takvim-i Vekayi İdaresi · Undated · 200 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru · Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi · Undated · 550 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
First work as recorded · Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi · Year not recorded

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

Current collection salary comparison

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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
1883/84 (AH 1301)	50	400	150 to 1,400	1.6%	1720
1885/86 (AH 1303)	150	400	150 to 1,500	9.3%	1787
1889/90 (AH 1307)	200	400	130 to 1,500	15.3%	1874
1892/93 (AH 1310)	320	400	135 to 1,500	37.6%	1935
1893/94 (AH 1311)	400	400	140 to 1,400	44.7%	1929
1896/97 (AH 1314)	620	450	150 to 1,575	69.0%	2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)	610	400	144 to 1,400	71.1%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,000	400	140 to 1,440	83.0%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	1,000	400	140 to 1,500	82.7%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	1,000	400	150 to 1,520	80.1%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	1,000	400	150 to 1,500	81.9%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	1,000	405	150 to 1,450	81.4%	1578
1908/09 (AH 1326)	1,075	400	150 to 2,000	78.8%	1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)	1,500	600	200 to 2,000	79.9%	1088

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi26
1883 to 1909 (AH 1301 to 1326)
Matbuat5
1899 to 1904 (AH 1317 to 1321)
İstihbar Kalemi1
1909/10 (AH 1327)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi50 to 1,075
Matbuat1,000
İstihbar Kalemi1,500

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

Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi memuru19
1883 to 1902 (AH 1301 to 1319)
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi muhayyer sanisi7
1902 to 1909 (AH 1320 to 1326)
Türkçe Gazeteler Tatbik Memuru (ilave-i memuriyet)5
1899 to 1904 (AH 1317 to 1321)
Matbuat Dahiliye Kalemi muhayyer salisi2
1901 to 1903 (AH 1319 to 1320)
İstihbar Kalemi muhayyeri1
1909/10 (AH 1327)

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

Silistra (Silistre)53 other officialsMustafa Behçet Efendi born 1860/61 (AH 1277); highest salary 700 kuruş
1883/84 (AH 1301)217 other officialsHafız Mehmet Efendi first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301); highest salary 470 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded^[source]

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Rüşdiye mektebi (şahadetname)^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları
KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 40, 41
BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85; 126 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85.; 127 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85.; 128 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85.; 129 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85.; 130 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85.; BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 38/85

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