Mehmed Rıfat Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

1875/76 (AH 1292)stajyerAntakya Mal Kalemi
1. stajyer
  Antakya Mal Kalemi · Calculated age 20
  [1]
1885/86 (AH 1303)Reji ambar memuru · 2 career entriesAntakya Reji İdaresi · 500 kuruş
1. Reji ambar memuru
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 31 · 500 kuruş
  [1]
2. Reji tahrirat kâtibi
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 31
  [1]
1886/87 (AH 1304)Reji ambar memuruAntakya Reji İdaresi · 500 kuruşContinuing service described by the source
1. Reji ambar memuru
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 32 · 500 kuruş
  Continuing service described by the source
  [1]
1887/88 (AH 1305)Reji ambar memuruAntakya Reji İdaresi · 500 kuruşContinuing service described by the source
1. Reji ambar memuru
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 33 · 500 kuruş
  Continuing service described by the source
  [1]
1888/89 (AH 1306)Reji ambar memuruAntakya Reji İdaresi · 500 kuruşContinuing service described by the source
1. Reji ambar memuru
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 34 · 500 kuruş
  Continuing service described by the source
  [1]
1889/90 (AH 1307)Reji ambar memuru · 4 career entriesAntakya Reji İdaresi · Antakya · 200; 400; 500 kuruş
1. Reji ambar memuru
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 35 · 500 kuruş
  Continuing service described by the source
  [1]
2. Reji ambar memuru (İnfisal)
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 35
  Recorded service ending
  [1]
3. Reji tahrirat kâtibi
  Antakya Reji İdaresi · Calculated age 35 · 400 kuruş
  [1]
4. Düyun-ı Umumiye ikinci kâtibi
  Antakya · Calculated age 35 · 200 kuruş
  [1]
1891/92 (AH 1309)Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili · 2 career entriesKilis · 200; 300 kuruş
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili
  Kilis · Calculated age 37 · 200 kuruş
  [1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
  Kilis · Calculated age 37 · 300 kuruş
  [1]
1892/93 (AH 1310)Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru · 2 career entriesKilis · 300 kuruş
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
  Kilis · Calculated age 38 · 300 kuruş
  Continuing service described by the source
  [1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru (İnfisal)
  Kilis · Calculated age 38
  Recorded service ending
  [1]
1893/94 (AH 1311)Düyun-ı Umumiye memuruPayas · 350 kuruş
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru
  Payas · Calculated age 39 · 350 kuruş
  [1]
1894/95 (AH 1312)Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili · 2 career entriesTarsus
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili
  Tarsus · Calculated age 40
  [1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)
  Tarsus · Calculated age 40
  Recorded service ending
  [1]
1900/01 (AH 1318)Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili · 3 career entriesSaimbeyli (Haçin) · 116 kuruş
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili
  Saimbeyli (Haçin) · Calculated age 46
  [1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili (Nakil)
  Saimbeyli (Haçin) · Calculated age 46
  Recorded service ending
  [1]
3. başka hizmet (belirtilmemiş)
  · Calculated age 46 · 116 kuruş
  [1]
Undated entriesDüyun-ı Umumiye memuru (Nakil) · 2 career entriesPayas · Adana
1. Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru (Nakil)
  Payas
  Recorded service ending
  [1]
2. Düyun-ı Umumiye merkez müdüriyeti memuru
  Adana
  [1]

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace: Antakya^[source]
Birth year: 1855/56 (AH 1272)^[source]
Religion: İslam^[source]

Education and languages

Arabic: Tekellüm^[source]
Turkish: Kitâbet^[source]okur yazar^[1]
Qualification: Formal qualification recorded^[source]rüştiye diploması^[1]Original wording is retained alongside any qualification indicator.
Education: Sıbyan; Rüştiye^[source]
Education level equivalent: 7^[source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service: 21^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place: Antakya Mal Kalemi^[source]
First work year: 1875/76 (AH 1292)^[source]

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

NAZİR ÇETİN. 2015. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909 · PDF pages 198, 199

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Birth · Religion as recorded · PDF page 198

Abdülkadir Ağa‟nın oğludur. 23 Ocak 1856 ( H.15 Cemaziyelevvel 1272) tarihinde

Birth · Qualifications · Education · PDF page 198

Antakya‟da doğmuĢtur. Sıbyan ve rüĢtiye mekteplerinde tahsilini tamamlayarak diploma

Languages · Qualifications · PDF page 198

almaya hak kazanmıĢtır. Türkçe okuyup yazabilmenin yanı sıra Arapça konuĢabilmekteydi.

Religion as recorded · PDF page 198

Umumiyesi Mehmed Rıfat Efendi‟nin iĢini layıkıyla yaptığını onaylamıĢtır. Bahsi geçen

Notes on the source account

Internship end is undated; it spans at most 1292 to 1303 as an upper bound, with no exact duration.
Salary from Adana to Haçin is unstated; it was 350 plus 80 or a later change.
The six-month acting duration does not match the 1310 departure; the acting post may have become a regular appointment.
Gap from 1312 to 1318 with no recorded events.

Documentary sources

Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909
NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 198, 199

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Life and career

Reji ambar memuru (İnfisal)

Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru (İnfisal)

Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili (Görevin sona ermesi)

Düyun-ı Umumiye memur vekili (Nakil)

Düyun-ı Umumiye memuru (Nakil)