Mehmet Cemal Efendi

Born Year not recorded · Silistra (Silistre) · Dated entries 1894 to 1899 (AH 1312 to 1316)

Languages Turkish

Archival reference BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 98/341

The career, year by year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Places and reading notes

Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

5 distinct dated years. Stacked marks retain different posts, rates or accounts without assigning an order within that year. Grey marks have no service place.

The life

Mehmet Cemal Efendi was born in Silistra (Silistre). Schooling included Aşık Paşa sıbyan mektebi; Fatih askeri rüşdiyesi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi in 1894/95 (AH 1312). Dated career entries span 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 1897/98 (AH 1315) across 4 AH years, from Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi to Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi, beginning with mülazım (kalem) and ending with entries for Kâtip. More than one post or place appears in 1 of those years. Place names include Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 60 kuruş in 1895/96 (AH 1313) to 120 kuruş in 1897/98 (AH 1315); the highest recorded monthly rate is 120 kuruş in 1897/98 (AH 1315). Death is recorded in 1898/99 (AH 1316).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Silistra (Silistre) · Year not recorded^[source]
Education: Aşık Paşa sıbyan mektebi; Fatih askeri rüşdiyesi^[source]
First work: 1894/95 (AH 1312) · İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi^[source]
Apprenticeship: 0.78^[source]Duration as recorded; the interval is not dated here.
Death recorded: 1898/99 (AH 1316)^[1]This is the year on a career record, not an exact date of death.

Career in numbers

5
Dated AH years: 1
Career place names: 3
Salary years: 60 → 120
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 120
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 6.7%
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.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1895/96 (AH 1313) to 1897/98 (AH 1315); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1897/98 (AH 1315)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1897/98 (AH 1315).

Life and career

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Follow 3 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

● Birth○ First workB / F · year unresolved● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 3 · İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi / Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

3 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

1
1894/95 (AH 1312)
İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi / Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi; Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
1. İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
  First work as recorded
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
  mülazım (kalem)
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2
1895/96 (AH 1313) · 3 recorded years
Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi
1. mülazım (kalem)
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kâtip
  60 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3. Kâtip
  60 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
4. Kâtip
  70 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
5. Kâtip
  100 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6. Kâtip
  100 kuruş
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7. Kâtip
  120 kuruş
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Place not recorded
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Vefat
  Entry & evidence →[1]

1 entry without a resolved year

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

Birth · Silistra (Silistre) · 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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Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only

Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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How the comparison is calculated

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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.

View the yearly values

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
1895/96 (AH 1313)	60	400	140 to 1,500	2.8%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	100	450	150 to 1,575	3.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	120	400	140 to 1,425	6.7%	1891

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

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Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi4
1894 to 1898 (AH 1312 to 1315)

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

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi60 to 120

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

Kâtip3
1895 to 1898 (AH 1313 to 1315)
mülazım (kalem)2
1894 to 1896 (AH 1312 to 1313)

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 officialsMehmet Emin Efendi born 1845 (AH 1261); highest salary 800 kuruş
1894/95 (AH 1312)224 other officialsAli Bey first annual entry 1894/95 (AH 1312); highest salary 350 kuruş
Katip7 other officialsMehmet Tevfik Efendi 3 shared years; highest salary 2,000 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; şahadetname^[1]

Schooling Aşık Paşa sıbyan mektebi; Fatih askeri rüşdiyesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

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Personal details

Birthplace: Silistre^[source]
Archive references: BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 98/341^[1]

Education and languages

Turkish: Kitâbet^[source]okur yazar^[1]
Qualification: Formal qualification recorded^[source]şahadetname^[1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education: Aşık Paşa sıbyan mektebi; Fatih askeri rüşdiyesi^[source]
Education level equivalent: 7^[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place: İstanbul? Mülkiye Tekaüd Sandığı Nezareti Muhasebe Kalemi^[source]
First work year: 1894/95 (AH 1312)^[source]
Apprenticeship: 0.78^[source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Sources and evidence

Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Silistreli devlet memurları
KEMAL TERLEMEZ · 2026 · Pages 65, 66
BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 98/341; 211 BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 98/341.; BOA, DH. SAİD,d. 98/341

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