Ahmet Cemal Efendi
Ahmet Cemal Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1298. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1315 (17 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 5 distinct AH years between 1318 and 1322; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Dersaadet (80 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
5 recorded AH years · 5 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1298
- AH 1315Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
- AH 1318–1321Birth-year difference: 20–23 AH years
- AH 1322Birth-year difference: 24 AH years
Each stage retains its recorded place and title. Annual stages group only consecutive years with the same title and place; they do not prove continuous tenure. Birth-year differences compare AH year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays.
Assigned salary in the annual career
Monthly kuruş · AHMuhabere Memuru · dersaadet · 80 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1315 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 50 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
Monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash payments. Lines connect consecutive AH years only; hollow points mean salary not recorded. Competing entries in one AH year remain separate points, without a unique pay-change line. Gregorian values elsewhere are stored labels.
Places in this record
◆ Birthplace■ First work● Annual recordRing: multiple relations
Every recorded locality remains visible in the key. Hollow markers show candidate coordinates; these are not resolved locations. Overlapping markers are offset for legibility; a small anchor and leader retain the source coordinate. Coastlines provide modern geographic context.
Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes
Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.
Salary 80 to 100 kuruş +20 (+25%)
Salary 100 to 200 kuruş +100 (+100%)
Locality dersaadet → edirne
Salary 200 to 500 kuruş +300 (+150%)
A title change is not automatically a promotion; a locality change is not a reconstructed journey.
How to read the dates, birth-year differences and salaries
AH years are the ordering clock. Birth-year differences subtract uncontested AH birth and event year numbers; they are not exact ages or birthdays. Separately recorded first-job age fields can use a different or unresolved convention and are not substituted into this calculation. Gregorian years are stored dataset labels. The first-work field may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service, and does not establish the beginning of PT service.
Salaries are monthly nominal assigned amounts, not confirmed cash disbursements. Differences between annual entries are not dated promotions or transfers. A source status such as Vefat is not a formal death date; no death locality is assigned from a last work place.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 3 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 0
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Baskomiser
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1298
- Religion wording
- Musluman
- Nationality wording
- Turkish
Schooling years are a duration/classification, not an acquisition date. Education and training dates await source-linked structured records; no dates are inferred here. No completion date is inferred from a schooling duration.
First-work and entry-pay fields
- First-work source date
- AH 1315 · 1897 label
- Place
- istanbul
- First-salary field
- 50 kuruş
- Source
- recovered
The first-work date may concern apprenticeship, paid instruction or earlier state service. The first-salary amount is a separate inherited field; their presence together does not prove that payment began on this date. Neither is the first positive annual salary observation.
Recorded language repertoire
1 field contains historical terms.
- Turkish
- Kitabet (writing)
Only recorded terms are shown. Omitted language fields mean not recorded; they do not establish that the official lacked a language. Original competency wording is preserved; Kitabet (writing), Tekellum (speaking) and Asina (familiarity) are cautious historical glosses, not modern proficiency levels. Workbook language notes remain separately source-linked in the additional evidence. Read the terminology note.
Further biographical evidence
Source wording and status assertions
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)
- Communication and Telegraph
Inspect the additional source wording, language notes and original codes
These separately linked fields add source wording and raw codes without replacing the annual career. Original rank, decoration and merit-code labels remain unverified; zero is retained literally. Read about the sources.
Enrichment edition: ottoman-bureaucracy-enrichment-5e2ba3e19fa6918b. This is separate from the annual data edition and annual-record PDF.
Download these additional source records (JSON)
| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 36305, 36306, 36307, 36308, 36309 Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 36305, 36306, 36307, 36308, 36309 Recorded source-year values: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 51614 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 54116 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 56622 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 59107 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 61256 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1318 · AH source lines 36305 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 36306 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1320 · AH source lines 36307 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 36308 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 36309 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 36305 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 36306 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 36307 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 36308 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 36309 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1318 · AH source lines 36305 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 36306 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1320 · AH source lines 36307 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 36308 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 36309 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 36305 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 36306 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 36307 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 36308 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 36309 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1318 · AH source lines 51614 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1319 · AH source lines 54116 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1320 · AH source lines 56622 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1321 · AH source lines 59107 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1322 · AH source lines 61256 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1318 · AH source lines 35183 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 35182 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1320 · AH source lines 35186 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 35184 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 35185 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 35183 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 35182 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 35186 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 35184 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 35185 |
Read the complete annual source table
Every displayed annual entry, in source / Hijri-year order. This table is the accessible alternative to the connected timeline and charts.
| Source year | Gregorian label | Title | Locality wording | Monthly kuruş | Source line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | dersaadet | 80 | recovered line 33053 | |
| 1901 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | dersaadet | 80 | recovered line 33054 | |
| 1902 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | dersaadet | 100 | recovered line 33055 | |
| 1903 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | dersaadet | 200 | recovered line 33056 | |
| 1904 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | edirne | 500 | recovered line 33057 |
- AH 1318 · 1900 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
80 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33053
- AH 1319 · 1901 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
80 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33054
- AH 1320 · 1902 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
100 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33055
- AH 1321 · 1903 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
200 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33056
- AH 1322 · 1904 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
500 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 33057
Evidence & edition
Coded extracts, preserved source differences
Collection membership
- Website edition
- ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a
- Source editions
- older, september, recovered
- Annual display source
- Recovered merged personnel extract
- Paper sample
- Included · 5 annual entries
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence
How to read this dossier
The website joins the exact archival identity across editions. Names are attributes and never merge records. No annual gap is filled from another extract. Geographic alternatives, missing values and differences remain evidence rather than silent corrections.
All substantive source assertions (80)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1298 | recovered · dobirth source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birthplace source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birth_place source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| qualification | 0 | recovered · qualification source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 0 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| fatherJob | Baskomiser | recovered · fatherjob source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| fatherJob | baskomiser | recovered · father_job source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| firstWorkH | 1315 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| firstWorkG | 1897 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 33053, 33054, 33055, 33056, 33057 |
| name | Ahmet Cemal Efendi | september · İsim source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| birthH | 1298 | september · dobirth source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | september · birthplace source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | september · birth_vilayet source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · mulazemet source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| qualification | 0 | september · qualification source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| fatherJob | baskomiser | september · fatherjob source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| firstWorkH | 1315 | september · firstjob_year source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | september · firstjob_place source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 35182, 35183, 35184, 35185, 35186 |
| name | Ahmet Cemal Efendi | older · İsim source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| birthH | 1298 | older · dobirth source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | older · birthplace source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | older · birth_vilayet source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| qualification | 0 | older · qualification source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| fatherJob | baskomiser | older · fatherjob source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| firstWorkH | 1315 | older · firstjob_year source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | older · firstjob_place source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| firstWorkSalary | 50 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 10727, 19158, 29499, 29908, 35820 |
Original stored values
These are values in the inherited coded extracts. They are not a verified transcription of the original register. Source spelling and differences are preserved.
Cite this record
Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Ahmet Cemal Efendi”, archival reference 119-55-105, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-bc5543f1107d63f8/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-bc5543f1107d63f8/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.