Official
İsmail Hakkı Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Crete (Girit) in 1884/85 (AH 1302). On record 1906 to 1908, 2 annual entries.
Archive reference 146-200-395
Life#
İsmail Hakkı Efendi was born in Crete (Girit) in 1884/85 (AH 1302) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community; the father was a customs official (rüsumat memuru). Schooling took 12 years, at Darüşşafaka, the school for orphans in Istanbul; İsmail Hakkı also attended the telegraph school, and wrote French, Greek (Rum) and Turkish.
At about 21, in 1906/07, İsmail Hakkı began work in Thessaloniki (Selanik), paid from the start, on 400 kuruş a month. Both annual entries, for 1906/07 and 1907/08, place İsmail Hakkı in Thessaloniki as a communications official (Muhabere Memuru).
The salary never rose above the first in the lists, 400 kuruş a month in 1906/07, as Muhabere Memuru in Thessaloniki, when 39 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 1884/85 (AH 1302)
First work 1906/07 (AH 1324); 1906 to 1908 (AH 1324 to 1325)
400 kuruş a month; entries in 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906/07 | 400 | 450 | 300 | 400 | 39% |
| 1907/08 | 400 | 300 | 250 | 350 | 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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1906/07AH 1324 | First work | Thessaloniki (Selanik) | 400first-salary field |
| 1906 to 1908AH 1324 to 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Thessaloniki (Selanik) | 400 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1884/85 (AH 1302)
- Birthplace
- Crete (Girit)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Rusumat Memuru
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
- Greek (Rum)
- Kitabetwriting. 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
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1906/07 (AH 1324)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 400
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 33 officials who held Muhabere Memuru in Thessaloniki (Selanik) in the same years, İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 13th highest salary.
- Mustafa Nuri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 900 kuruş
- Mehmet Galip Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Mehmet Şükrü Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Hüseyin Avni Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Raif Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
Same place, same years
Of the 56 officials with entries in Thessaloniki (Selanik) in the same years, İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 28th highest salary.
- Mustafa Nuri Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 900 kuruş
- Mehmet Galip Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Mehmet Şükrü Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Mehmet Burhanettin Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 585 kuruş
- Hüseyin Avni Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 636 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 197th highest salary.
- Mustafa Fazıl Bey2 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Mahmut Nedim Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,200 kuruş
- Abdülvahid Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Ahmet Muhtar Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Jozef Fori Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Same school
Of the 203 officials with Darüşşafaka among their schools, İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 116th highest salary.
- Bekir Vefa Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hacı Mehmet Fethi Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 150 kuruş
- Halil Edip Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Hüseyin Hüsnü Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 400 kuruş
- İsmail Hakkı Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 400 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 15 officials born in Crete (Girit), İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 10th highest salary.
- Mahmut Hulusi Efendiborn 1884/85 (AH 1302); highest salary 400 kuruş
- İbrahim Edhem Efendiborn 1886/87 (AH 1304); highest salary 350 kuruş
- Ahmet Cemal Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Hasan Fehmi Efendiborn 1879/80 (AH 1297); highest salary 800 kuruş
- HÜSEYİN FİKRİ EFENDİborn 1878 (AH 1295); highest salary 250 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 161 officials whose first annual entry is for 1906/07 (AH 1324), İsmail Hakkı Efendi had the 24th highest salary.
- Mehmet Şükrü Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 600 kuruş
- Salih Münir Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Yosef Kloronti Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Salih Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Hüseyin Avni Efendifirst entry in Thessaloniki (Selanik); highest salary 500 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (2)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906/07AH 1324 | Muhabere Memuru | Thessaloniki (Selanik) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 146-200-395 |
| 1907/08AH 1325 | Muhabere Memuru | Thessaloniki (Selanik) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 146-200-395 |
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 | İsmail Hakkı Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1302 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | girit | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | girit | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | Rusumat Memuru | 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) | 1324 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1906 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Selanik | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 400 | 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.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- İsmail Hakkı Efendi
- Communications official (Muhabere Memuru)
- Thessaloniki (Selanik)
- Crete (Girit)
- 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)