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Mehmed Cemal Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1910/11 (AH 1328)Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi müdürü · 2 career entriesMecca (Mekke) · 300; 400 kuruş

    1. Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi müdürü

      Mecca (Mekke) · Calculated age 20 · 400 kuruş

      Broader service field: Postal and telegraph service

      [1]

    2. Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi muavin memuru

      Mecca (Mekke) · Calculated age 20 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Postal and telegraph service

      [1]

  2. 1911 (AH 1329)Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi muavin memuru · 2 career entriesMecca (Mekke) · Jeddah (Cidde) · 300; 500 kuruş

    1. Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi muavin memuru

      Mecca (Mekke) · Calculated age 21 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Postal and telegraph service

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Üçüncü sınıf posta memuru

      Jeddah (Cidde) · Calculated age 21 · 500 kuruş

      Broader service field: Postal and telegraph service

      [1]

  3. Undated entriesTelgraf ve Posta Merkezi şakirdiMecca (Mekke)

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

02505001910/11AH 13281911AH 13291910/11 (AH 1328) · Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi müdürü · Mecca (Mekke) · age 20 · 400 kuruş1910/11 (AH 1328) · Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi muavin memuru · Mecca (Mekke) · age 20 · 300 kuruş1911 (AH 1329) · Posta ve Telgraf Merkezi muavin memuru · Mecca (Mekke) · age 21 · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service1911 (AH 1329) · Üçüncü sınıf posta memuru · Jeddah (Cidde) · age 21 · 500 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Mekke [source]
Birth province
Hicaz [source]
Birth year
1890/91 (AH 1308) [source]
Father’s occupation
Delil [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAĠD. d, nr.189/33 s.33 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm [source]
Education detail
Beşinci sınıfa kadar öğrenim; sağlık sorunları nedeniyle kendi talebi ve babasının onayıyla ayrılış [source]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Darüşşafaka [source]
Education level equivalent
12 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

First work place
Mekke [source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Osmanlı Devletinde görev yapan hicazlı devlet memurları

    BEYHAN KACIROĞLU · 2021 · Pages 179, 180

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