Official
Ahmet Fazıl Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Nevşehir in 1856/57 (AH 1273). On record 1877 to 1904, 17 annual entries.
Archive reference 0034_0210; 417
Life#
Ahmet Fazıl Efendi was born in Nevşehir in 1856/57 (AH 1273). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Komiser.
Schooling recorded: Sıbyan Mektebi, with 4 years of schooling recorded. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in 1877/78 (AH 1294): Telgraf. The official was then about 20 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 500 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1877/78, the official was about 20 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1877/78, shows Muhabere Memuru in Acara-i sufla, with 500 kuruş a month. In 1878 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Eskişehir, the salary going from 500 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Acara-i sufla). In 1878/79 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), the salary going from 400 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Eskişehir). In 1881/82 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Uşak, the salary going from 400 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Afyonkarahisar). In 1888/89 the record shows no title (before: Muhabere Memuru in Uşak). In 1900/01 the record shows 2. Müdür in Vlorë (Avlonya), with 900 kuruş a month (before: no title). In 1901/02 the record shows 2. Müdür in Samsun, with 900 kuruş a month (before: 2. Müdür in Vlorë). No annual entry is recorded for 1889 to 1900.
The highest salary, 900 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1900/01 as 2. Müdür. 85 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 16 years with a salary the median is 500 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and 2 cuts. The largest rise, 400 kuruş, is seen in 1900/01. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 2.2 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1903/04, when 84 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1856/57 (AH 1273)
- Birthplace
- Nevşehir
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Komiser
Education
- Primary
- Sıbyan Mektebi (4 years)school for young children (primary school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives yes.
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- First job as worded
- Telgraf
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 21
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 500
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 500
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Telgraffirst work | 500first-salary field | |
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Muhabere Memuru | Acara-i sufla | 500 |
| 1878AH 1295 | Muhabere Memuru | Eskişehir | 400 |
| 1878 to 1881AH 1296 to 1298 | Muhabere Memuru | Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) | 500 to 400 |
| 1881 to 1888AH 1299 to 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | |||
| No annual entry: 1889 to 1900 (AH 1307 to 1317) | |||
| 1900/01AH 1318 | 2. Müdür | Vlorë (Avlonya) | 900 |
| 1901 to 1904AH 1319 to 1321 | 2. Müdür | Samsun | 900 |
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.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78 | 500 | 560 | 410 | 36% |
| 1878 | 400 | 600 | 500 | 17% |
| 1878/79 | 500 | 600 | 420 | 34% |
| 1879/80 | 400 | 500 | 380 | 35% |
| 1880/81 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 34% |
| 1881/82 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 46% |
| 1882/83 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1883/84 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 43% |
| 1884/85 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 42% |
| 1885/86 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 42% |
| 1886/87 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 42% |
| 1887/88 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 41% |
| 1900/01 | 900 | 500 | 800 | 85% |
| 1901/02 | 900 | 500 | 800 | 85% |
| 1902/03 | 900 | 500 | 800 | 84% |
| 1903/04 | 900 | 475 | 800 | 84% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mehmet Fazıl EfendiSamsun, 3 shared years
- Hasan Hilmi EfendiSamsun, 3 shared years
- Mehmet Fevzi EfendiAfyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib), 3 shared years
- Ahmet Faiz EfendSamsun, 3 shared years
- Mustafa Eşref EfendiSamsun, 3 shared years
22 officials in all. Officials recorded in Uşak
Same school recorded
- Abdürrezzak Talat EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Ahmet Şefik EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Ahmet Tevfik EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Ali EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Ali Rıza EfendiSıbyan Mektebi, first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294)
744 officials in all. Officials with Sıbyan Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Mehmed Hazım EfendiNevşehir, born 1856/57 (AH 1273)
- Mehmet Fehmi EfendiNevşehir, born 1857/58 (AH 1274)
- Mehmet Fehmi EfendiNevşehir, born 1857/58 (AH 1274)
- Mehmet Kamil EfendiNevşehir, born 1857/58 (AH 1274)
- Bekir Zuhtu EfendiNevşehir, born 1854/55 (AH 1271)
38 officials in all. Officials born in Nevşehir
Full record
Annual entries (17)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Muhabere Memuru | Acara-i sufla | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1878AH 1295 | Muhabere Memuru | Eskişehir | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Muhabere Memuru | Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Muhabere Memuru | Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Muhabere Memuru | Afyonkarahisar (Karahisar-ı Sahib) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Uşak | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 0034_0210; 417 | |||
| 1900/01AH 1318 | 2. Müdür | Vlorë (Avlonya) | 900 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | 2. Müdür | Samsun | 900 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | 2. Müdür | Samsun | 900 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | 2. Müdür | Samsun | 900 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0210; 417 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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 (19)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Ahmet Fazıl Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1273 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | nevsehir | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Nevsehir | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Nigde | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Konya | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | konya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | komiser | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Sibyan mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1294 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1877 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First job as worded | Telgraf | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 21 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 500 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 500 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 16 annual entries of 17 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.