Mehmet Arif Efendi

Born 1848/49 (AH 1265) · Çorum · Dated entries 1866 to 1904 (AH 1283 to 1321)

Languages Arabic, Turkish

Archival reference DH. SAID 46/245

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmet Arif Efendi was born in Çorum in 1848/49 (AH 1265). Schooling included Sıbyan Mektebi. The language repertoire included Arabic and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Jeddah (Cidde) in 1866/67 (AH 1283). Dated career entries span 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 1903/04 (AH 1321) across 29 AH years, from Jeddah (Cidde) to Edirne, beginning with Gureba Hastanesi yazı işleri memuru and ending with entries for Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi. More than one post or place appears in 6 of those years. Place names include Jeddah (Cidde), Bayraklı Ambarları, Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası and Mecit Ağa Tütün Fabrikası and 6 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 250 kuruş in 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 3,600 kuruş in 1897/98 (AH 1315); the highest recorded monthly rate is 5,000 kuruş in 1894/95 (AH 1312).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Çorum · 1848/49 (AH 1265)^[source]
Education: Sıbyan Mektebi^[source]
First work: 1866/67 (AH 1283) · Jeddah (Cidde)^[source]
Age at first work: 18^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 250 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

29
Dated AH years: 11
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 23
Salary years: 250 → 3,600
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 5,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 97.6%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Entries without a resolved year. The original calendar wording remains available without inventing an annual year.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1866/67 (AH 1283) to 1897/98 (AH 1315); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1894/95 (AH 1312)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1897/98 (AH 1315).

Life and career

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Follow 16 dated stages in the life. Choose a year in the life ribbon below the map. Places and earlier connections accumulate as you advance; All stops reveals the overview.

● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 16 · Çorum

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Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

7 stops kept as text without a verified locality point. No provincial capital is substituted.

1
1848/49 (AH 1265)
Çorum
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1866/67 (AH 1283)
Jeddah (Cidde)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 18
  Personal record & evidence →
2. Gureba Hastanesi yazı işleri memuru
  250 kuruşCalculated age 18
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1870/71 (AH 1287) · 2 recorded years
Place not recorded
AH entries: 1287, 1288. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Gümrük Dairesi muhasebe kalemi yardımcısı
  390 kuruşCalculated age 22
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gümrük Dairesi yazı işleri memuru
  970 kuruşCalculated age 23
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1872/73 (AH 1289)
Place not recorded / Bayraklı Ambarları
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Bayraklı Ambarları
1. Place not recorded
  Gümrük Dairesi yazı işleri memuru
  920 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Bayraklı Ambarları
  Tütün İdaresi Bayraklı Ambarları muhasip kalemi memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1873/74 (AH 1290) · 4 recorded years
Bayraklı Ambarları
AH entries: 1290, 1291, 1292, 1293. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Bayraklı Ambarları
1. Tütün İdaresi Bayraklı Ambarları muhasip kalemi memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Tütün İdaresi Bayraklı Ambarları muhasip kalemi memuru
  1,000 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 6 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Place not recorded / Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded; Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası
1. Place not recorded
  Tütün İdaresi Bayraklı Ambarları muhasip kalemi memuru (İnfisal)
  Calculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası
  Tütün fabrikası memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1878 (AH 1295)
Mecit Ağa Tütün Fabrikası / Süveydiye (Samandağı)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Mecit Ağa Tütün Fabrikası; Süveydiye (Samandağı)
1. Mecit Ağa Tütün Fabrikası
  Tütün fabrikası memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Süveydiye (Samandağı)
  Tütün fabrikası memuru
  600 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1878/79 (AH 1296) · 3 recorded years
Place not recorded
AH entries: 1296, 1297, 1298. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Location not recorded
1. Emtia Gümrük İdaresi muhasiplik memuru
  750 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Emtia Dâhiliye Gümrüğü muhasiplik memuru
  800 kuruşCalculated age 33
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
9
1881/82 (AH 1299) · 4 recorded years
Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü
AH entries: 1299, 1300, 1301, 1302. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü
1. Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü Nezareti muhasebe müdürü
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü Nezareti muhasebe müdürü
  1,750 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1885/86 (AH 1303)
Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü / Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü
1. Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü
  Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü Nezareti muhasebe müdürü
  1,750 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Istanbul (Dersaadet)
  Galata Gümrüğü muhasebe müdürü
  1,750 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1886/87 (AH 1304)
Preveza (Preveze)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  4,000 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi (İstifa)
  Calculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1889/90 (AH 1307) · 5 recorded years
Jeddah (Cidde)
AH entries: 1307, 1308, 1309, 1310, 1311. Gaps remain open.
1. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  Calculated age 42
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  Calculated age 46
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 5 recorded entries in this stage →
13
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Jeddah (Cidde) / Trabzon
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. Jeddah (Cidde)
  Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  Calculated age 47
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Trabzon
  Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  5,000 kuruşCalculated age 47
  Entry & evidence →[1]
14
1895/96 (AH 1313) · 2 recorded years
Trabzon
AH entries: 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.
1. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  5,000 kuruşCalculated age 48
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  4,500 kuruşCalculated age 49
  Entry & evidence →[1]
15
1897/98 (AH 1315)
Preveza (Preveze)
1. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  3,600 kuruşCalculated age 50
  Entry & evidence →[1]
16
1903/04 (AH 1321)
Edirne
1. Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi
  Calculated age 56
  Entry & evidence →[1]

2 entries without a resolved year

These entries remain outside the dated sequence. Their position in the life cannot be established from the recorded year field.

Emtia Gümrük İdaresi manifatura yazı işleri memuru · Undated · 500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]
Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi · Tripoli (Trablusgarp) · Undated · 4,500 kuruş Entry & evidence → Source [1]

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

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Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1866/67 (AH 1283)	250	400	146 to 2,000	23.9%	399
1870/71 (AH 1287)	970	400	150 to 2,000	76.1%	649
1871/72 (AH 1288)	970	420.5	125 to 2,375	75.4%	712
1872/73 (AH 1289)	920	450	140 to 2,350	75.8%	736
1873/74 (AH 1290)	900	405	130 to 2,200	74.6%	805
1874/75 (AH 1291)	800	450	150 to 1,800	72.4%	882
1875/76 (AH 1292)	1,000	450	150 to 2,000	77.1%	976
1876/77 (AH 1293)	1,000	420	150 to 2,000	77.9%	1102
1877/78 (AH 1294)	600	450	150 to 1,800	63.8%	1160
1878 (AH 1295)	600	450	150 to 2,000	64.3%	1196
1878/79 (AH 1296)	750	400	150 to 2,000	70.5%	1328
1879/80 (AH 1297)	600	400	180 to 1,800	65.7%	1534
1880/81 (AH 1298)	800	400	160 to 1,500	77.8%	1448
1881/82 (AH 1299)	1,200	400	150 to 1,500	85.2%	1489
1882/83 (AH 1300)	1,500	400	150 to 1,400	90.1%	1655
1883/84 (AH 1301)	1,750	400	150 to 1,400	92.2%	1720
1884/85 (AH 1302)	1,750	400	150 to 1,500	91.3%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	1,750	400	150 to 1,500	91.7%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	4,000	400	150 to 1,500	97.1%	1725
1894/95 (AH 1312)	5,000	400	140 to 1,500	98.0%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	5,000	400	140 to 1,500	97.5%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	4,500	450	150 to 1,575	97.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	3,600	400	140 to 1,425	97.6%	1891

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Jeddah (Cidde)7
1866 to 1895 (AH 1283 to 1312)
Bayraklı Ambarları5
1872 to 1877 (AH 1289 to 1293)
Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü5
1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
Trabzon3
1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
Preveza (Preveze)2
1886 to 1898 (AH 1304 to 1315)
Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası1
1877/78 (AH 1294)

The six most recorded places. Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Jeddah (Cidde)250
Bayraklı Ambarları600 to 1,000
Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü1,200 to 1,750
Trabzon4,500 to 5,000
Preveza (Preveze)3,600 to 4,000
Arif Efendi Tütün Fabrikası600

Six places with the most recorded career years. Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title

Gümrük İdaresi görevlisi11
1886 to 1904 (AH 1304 to 1321)
Kemriç Kapısı Gümrüğü Nezareti muhasebe müdürü5
1881 to 1886 (AH 1299 to 1303)
Tütün İdaresi Bayraklı Ambarları muhasip kalemi memuru5
1872 to 1877 (AH 1289 to 1293)
Gümrük Dairesi yazı işleri memuru3
1870 to 1873 (AH 1287 to 1289)
Emtia Gümrük İdaresi muhasiplik memuru2
1878 to 1880 (AH 1296 to 1297)
Tütün fabrikası memuru2
1877 to 1878 (AH 1294 to 1295)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

Çorum53 other officialsAhmet Ramiz Efendi born 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Jeddah (Cidde)18 other officialsMustafa Şükrü Efendi 6 shared years; highest salary 700 kuruş
Sıbyan Mektebi562 other officialsAlaaddin Efendi born 1848/49 (AH 1265); highest salary 2,000 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan Mektebi^[source]

Qualification Sıbyan mektebini bitirdi; Medine'de çeşitli ilimler üzerine ders aldı^[1]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

Arabic · Tekellüm^[source]
Turkish · tekellüm; okur yazar^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicil-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Çorumlu devlet memurları (1879-1909)
HAYRETTİN ÖRS · 2019 · Pages 75, 76
DH. SAID 46/245

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Yearly entries and their source passages · 29 dated AH years

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