Official
Mehmet Sadık Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1858/59 (AH 1275). On record 1881 to 1894, 12 annual entries.
Archive reference 0099_0057; 111
Life#
Mehmet Sadık Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1858/59 (AH 1275). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman) and the nationality as Turkish.
Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded. The personnel records also mark the telegraph school. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Greek (Rum), with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1878 (AH 1295). The official was then about 19 years old. The record gives 4 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 250 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1881/82, the official was about 23 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1881/82, shows Mevrude Memuru in Galata, with 250 kuruş a month. In 1883/84 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul, with 250 kuruş a month (before: Mevrude Memuru in Galata). In 1887/88 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Büyükada, the salary going from 300 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Istanbul). In 1890/91 the record shows 3. Müdür in Heybeliada, with 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Büyükada). In 1891/92 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Istanbul, the salary going from 600 to 750 kuruş a month (before: 3. Müdür in Heybeliada). In 1893/94 the record shows Seyyar Memur in Skopje (Üsküp), with 750 kuruş a month (before: Seyyar Memur in Istanbul). No annual entry is recorded for 1892/93.
The highest salary, 750 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1891/92 as Seyyar Memur. 75 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 12 years with a salary the median is 450 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and no cuts. The largest rise, 300 kuruş, is seen in 1887/88. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 9.59 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1893/94, when 76 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Higher or professional
- Telgraf Mektebitelegraph school; recorded as a code
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 4 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- 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
- 1878 (AH 1295)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 250
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Zayi / Mumaileyh Eskişehir nakliye memuru Süreyya Efendi ile beraber zayi ettikleri üç bin kuruşluk bir emanet meselesinden dolayı taht-ı muhakemeye alınmak üzere bin üç yüz on senesi Cemaziyelahirinin ikisinde 1 Kânunusani sene 1308 işten el çektirilmiştir.; Zimmet
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1311
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1878AH 1295 | First work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250first-salary field |
| 1881 to 1883AH 1299 to 1300 | Mevrude Memuru | Galata | 250 |
| 1883 to 1887AH 1301 to 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 to 300 |
| 1887 to 1890AH 1305 to 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Büyükada | 600 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 600 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 750 |
| No annual entry: 1892/93 (AH 1310) | |||
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Seyyar Memur | Skopje (Üsküp) | 750 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881/82 | 250 | 500 | 350 | 8% |
| 1882/83 | 250 | 500 | 350 | 6% |
| 1883/84 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 6% |
| 1884/85 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 6% |
| 1885/86 | 250 | 500 | 400 | 6% |
| 1886/87 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 11% |
| 1887/88 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 58% |
| 1888/89 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 58% |
| 1889/90 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 58% |
| 1890/91 | 600 | 500 | 600 | 59% |
| 1891/92 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 75% |
| 1893/94 | 750 | 500 | 600 | 76% |
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
- İbrahim Saffet EfendiIstanbul and 1 other place, 6 shared years
- Ahmet Halit EfendiIstanbul and 1 other place, 6 shared years
- Mehmet Aziz EfendiIstanbul, 5 shared years
- Osep EfendiIstanbul, 5 shared years
- Mehmet Ziyauttin EfendiIstanbul, 5 shared years
649 officials in all. Officials recorded in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Same school recorded
- Abbas EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Abdülvahhab EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Abdurrahman Faik EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Abdurrahman Feyzi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299)
- Ahmed Hulusi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1881/82 (AH 1299)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Ahmet Faik EfendiIstanbul, born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Ahmet Haydar BeyIstanbul, born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Ahmet Hayri EfendiIstanbul, born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Ali Agah EfendiIstanbul, born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Ali Fethi BeyIstanbul, born 1858/59 (AH 1275)
1,998 officials in all. Officials born in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Full record
Annual entries (12)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Mevrude Memuru | Galata | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Mevrude Memuru | Galata | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Büyükada | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Büyükada | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Büyükada | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | 3. Müdür | Heybeliada | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Seyyar Memur | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
| 1893/94AH 1311 | Seyyar Memur | Skopje (Üsküp) | 750 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0099_0057; 111 |
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 (17)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Sadık Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1275 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | dersaadet | 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 | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Telegraph school (recorded code) | 1 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1295 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1878 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 250 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Zayi / Mumaileyh Eskişehir nakliye memuru Süreyya Efendi ile beraber zayi ettikleri üç bin kuruşluk bir emanet meselesinden dolayı taht-ı muhakemeye alınmak üzere bin üç yüz on senesi Cemaziyelahirinin ikisinde 1 Kânunusani sene 1308 işten el çektirilmiştir. used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Zimmet other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1311 | Later annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- Later annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
- 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.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 12 annual entries of 12 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.