Official
Mehmet Ruhi Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Tirebolu in 1874/75 (AH 1291). On record 1896 to 1906, 8 annual entries.
Archive reference 116_105; 207
Life#
Mehmet Ruhi Efendi was born in Tirebolu in 1874/75 (AH 1291). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Telgraf Memuru.
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: Greek (Rum), with Tekellum; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Ioannina (Yanya) in 1894/95 (AH 1312). The official was then about 20 years old. The record gives 2 years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 300 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1896/97, the official was about 22 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1896/97, shows Muhabere Memuru in Ioannina, with 300 kuruş a month. In 1900/01 the record shows 3. Müdür in Minokofca, the salary going from 300 to 600 kuruş a month (before: Muhabere Memuru in Ioannina). In 1901/02 the record shows Ittihat Posta Memuru in Izmir (İzmir), the salary going from 600 to 380 kuruş a month (before: 3. Müdür in Minokofca). In 1903/04 the record shows Mersule Memuru in Izmir, the salary going from 380 to 381 kuruş a month (before: Ittihat Posta Memuru in Izmir). In 1905/06 the record shows Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti in Izmir, the salary going from 381 to 400 kuruş a month (before: Mersule Memuru in Izmir). No annual entry is recorded for 1899/1900 and 1902/03.
The highest salary, 600 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1900/01 as 3. Müdür. 67 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 8 years with a salary the median is 380.5 kuruş a month, with 3 rises and 1 cut. The largest rise, 300 kuruş, is seen in 1900/01. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 3.25 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1905/06, when 38 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Birthplace
- Tirebolu
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Telgraf Memuru
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 2 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
- Greek (Rum)
- Tekellumspeaking. 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
- 1894/95 (AH 1312)
- Place
- Ioannina (Yanya)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 300
Legal records
- Legal record note as worded
- idaresizlik / acz-i hâli ve hareket-i serkeşanesi yüzünden muhaberat tehirine sebebiyet verdiği ve bu haliyle de bekası caiz olamayacağı gibi memurin-i mevcude ile de idare-i maslahat mümkün olamayacağından; İdaresizlikten
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1318; 1319; 1321; 1322; 1323
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894/95AH 1312 | First work | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300first-salary field |
| 1896 to 1899AH 1314 to 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 |
| No annual entry: 1899/1900 (AH 1317) | |||
| 1900/01AH 1318 | 3. Müdür | Minokofca | 600 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Ittihat Posta Memuru | Izmir (İzmir) | 380 |
| No annual entry: 1902/03 (AH 1320) | |||
| 1903 to 1905AH 1321 to 1322 | Mersule Memuru | Izmir (İzmir) | 381 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Izmir (İzmir) | 400 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
| 1897/98 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1898/99 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 19% |
| 1900/01 | 600 | 500 | 540 | 67% |
| 1901/02 | 380 | 500 | 400 | 29% |
| 1903/04 | 381 | 475 | 300 | 36% |
| 1904/05 | 381 | 450 | 285 | 37% |
| 1905/06 | 400 | 475 | 445 | 38% |
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
- Abdullah Vahdi EfendiIzmir (İzmir), 4 shared years
- Veli Şükrü EfendiIzmir (İzmir), 4 shared years
- Ahmet Ziya EfendiIzmir (İzmir), 4 shared years
- Bekir Sıtkı EfendiIzmir (İzmir), 4 shared years
- Frangül Terziyan EfendiIzmir (İzmir), 4 shared years
134 officials in all. Officials recorded in Izmir (İzmir)
Same school recorded
- Abdullah Kamil EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1896/97 (AH 1314)
- Abdülmecid EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1896/97 (AH 1314)
- Abdüssabur Sabri EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1896/97 (AH 1314)
- Ahmet Celalettin EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1896/97 (AH 1314)
- Ahmet Cevdet EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1896/97 (AH 1314)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Mustafa Zihni EfendiTirebolu, born 1872/73 (AH 1289)
- Mehmet Celal EfendiTirebolu, born 1877/78 (AH 1294)
- Şükrü EfendiTirebolu, born 1878 (AH 1295)
- Ahmet Lütfi EfendiTirebolu, born 1867/68 (AH 1284)
- Ahmet Naili EfendiTirebolu, born 1845 (AH 1261)
6 officials in all. Officials born in Tirebolu
Full record
Annual entries (8)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1896/97AH 1314 | Muhabere Memuru | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1897/98AH 1315 | Muhabere Memuru | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Muhabere Memuru | Ioannina (Yanya) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | 3. Müdür | Minokofca | 600 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Ittihat Posta Memuru | Izmir (İzmir) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Mersule Memuru | Izmir (İzmir) | 381 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Mersule Memuru | Izmir (İzmir) | 381 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Muhaberat-ı Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | Izmir (İzmir) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_105; 207 |
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 Ruhi Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1291 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | tirebolu | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | trabzon | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | telgraf memuru | 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) | 2 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1312 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1894 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Yanya | 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 | idaresizlik / acz-i hâli ve hareket-i serkeşanesi yüzünden muhaberat tehirine sebebiyet verdiği ve bu haliyle de bekası caiz olamayacağı gibi memurin-i mevcude ile de idare-i maslahat mümkün olamayacağından used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | İdaresizlikten other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1318; 1319; 1321; 1322; 1323 | 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.
- 8 annual entries of 8 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.