Official
Mahmut Hamdi Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Tripoli (Trablusşam) in 1858/59 (AH 1275). On record 1878 to 1892, 13 annual entries. Death recorded 1892/93.
Archive reference 0034_0109; 215
Life#
Mahmut Hamdi Efendi was born in Tripoli (Trablusşam) 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 record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Arabic, with Kitabet; Persian, with Asina; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Tripoli in 1874/75 (AH 1291). The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives 4 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1878, the official was about 19 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1878, shows Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli, with 300 kuruş a month. In 1881/82 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Quneitra (Kuneytire), the salary going from 380 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Tripoli). In 1882/83 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Beirut (Beyrut), with 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Quneitra). In 1884/85 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Al-Salt (Salt), the salary going from 600 to 500 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Beirut). In 1886/87 the record shows Muhabere Memuru in Beirut, the salary going from 500 to 340 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Al-Salt). No annual entry is recorded for 1883/84 and 1885/86.
The highest salary, 600 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1881/82 as Muhabere Memuru. 60 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 13 years with a salary the median is 340 kuruş a month, with 4 rises and 3 cuts. The largest rise, 220 kuruş, is seen in 1881/82. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 2.08 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1891/92, when 29 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
A death is recorded under 1892/93 (AH 1310): the year of the annual list that holds the status word Vefat, not a date of death.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Birthplace
- Tripoli (Trablusşam)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Death recorded
- 1892/93 (AH 1310)the year of the annual list with the word Vefat, not a date of death
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 4 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Middle
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- Yes
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Arabic
- Kitabetwriting
- Persian
- Asinafamiliarity
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Place
- Tripoli (Trablusşam)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 300
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- Devamsızlık / Beyrut Telgrafhanesi'nden adem-i devamından ve Salt Merkezi'nden dahi kendisinin orada ibkası takdirde beyne'l-ahali kîl ü kâl ve belki suda‘ı mucib bir hâl zuhuru nezaretce tahakkuk eylemesinden dolayı azledilmiştir.; Devamsızlık
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1302; 1304; 1305; 1306; 1307; 1308
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1874/75AH 1291 | First work | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 300first-salary field |
| 1878 to 1881AH 1295 to 1298 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 300 to 380 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Muhabere Memuru | Quneitra (Kuneytire) | 600 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 600 |
| No annual entry: 1883/84 (AH 1301) | |||
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Al-Salt (Salt) | 500 |
| No annual entry: 1885/86 (AH 1303) | |||
| 1886 to 1892AH 1304 to 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 340 to 400 |
| 1892/93AH 1310 | Death recorded | ||
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878 | 300 | 600 | 500 | 8% |
| 1878/79 | 300 | 600 | 420 | 9% |
| 1879/80 | 285 | 500 | 380 | 11% |
| 1880/81 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 21% |
| 1881/82 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 60% |
| 1882/83 | 600 | 500 | 400 | 59% |
| 1884/85 | 500 | 500 | 400 | 42% |
| 1886/87 | 340 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
| 1887/88 | 340 | 500 | 400 | 17% |
| 1888/89 | 340 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
| 1889/90 | 340 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1890/91 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 22% |
| 1891/92 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 29% |
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 EfendiBeirut (Beyrut) and 1 other place, 10 shared years
- Yusuf Yaşar Sabit EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), 7 shared years
- Kamil EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), 7 shared years
- Mehmet İzzet EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), 7 shared years
- Ahmet EfendiBeirut (Beyrut), 6 shared years
53 officials in all. Officials recorded in Beirut (Beyrut)
Same school recorded
- Abdulkadir EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1878 (AH 1295)
- Ahmet Hamdi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1878 (AH 1295)
- Ahmet Hayri EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1878 (AH 1295)
- Ahmet Niyazi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1878 (AH 1295)
- Ali Rıza EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1878 (AH 1295)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Mehmet Said EfendiTripoli (Trablusşam), born 1859/60 (AH 1276)
- Mehmet Fevzi EfendiTripoli (Trablusşam), born 1863/64 (AH 1280)
- Kamil EfendiTripoli (Trablusşam), born 1851/52 (AH 1268)
- Hacı Ahmet Hilmi EfendiTripoli (Trablusşam), born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- İlyas Raci EfendiTripoli (Trablusşam), born 1848/49 (AH 1265)
10 officials in all. Officials born in Tripoli (Trablusşam)
Full record
Annual entries (13)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1878AH 1295 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 285 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Muhabere Memuru | Tripoli (Trablusşam) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Muhabere Memuru | Quneitra (Kuneytire) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1884/85AH 1302 | Muhabere Memuru | Al-Salt (Salt) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1886/87AH 1304 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 340 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1887/88AH 1305 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 340 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1888/89AH 1306 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 340 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1889/90AH 1307 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 340 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1890/91AH 1308 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
| 1891/92AH 1309 | Muhabere Memuru | Beirut (Beyrut) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 0034_0109; 215 |
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 | Mahmut Hamdi Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1275 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | trablussam | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | beyrut | 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 |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1291 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1874 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Trablussam | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 300 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Legal records | ||
| Legal record note as worded | Devamsızlık / Beyrut Telgrafhanesi'nden adem-i devamından ve Salt Merkezi'nden dahi kendisinin orada ibkası takdirde beyne'l-ahali kîl ü kâl ve belki suda‘ı mucib bir hâl zuhuru nezaretce tahakkuk eylemesinden dolayı azledilmiştir. used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Devamsızlık other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1302; 1304; 1305; 1306; 1307; 1308 | Later annual personnel extract |
| Status | ||
| Death recorded under the year (AH) | 1310 | Earlier annual personnel extract (original copy); Earlier annual personnel extract (parallel copy) |
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.
- Earlier annual personnel extract (original copy)
- A copy of the earlier annual personnel file, read for the title wording of each year. A death taken from it is the status word Vefat in the title field of one annual list: the year is the year of that list, not a date of death.
- Earlier annual personnel extract (parallel copy)
- A second copy of the earlier annual personnel file, read in the same way. A death taken from it is the status word Vefat in the title field of one annual list: the year is the year of that list, not a date of death. Two copies that agree are one piece of evidence, 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.
- 13 annual entries of 13 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.