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Mehmed Sabri Efendi

Born 1874/75 (AH 1291) · Gümüşhane, Cami-i Kebir Mahallesi · Dated entries 1899 to 1911 (AH 1317 to 1329)

Languages Turkish

The career, year by year

Read every year

Each mark opens a dated entry. Colour identifies the place; blank years remain gaps.

Follow 4 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.

Gümüşhane
● Birth○ First work● Career→ Earlier recorded connections

Stage 1 of 4 · Gümüşhane, Cami-i Kebir Mahallesi

How to read this map

Connections join located entries in chronological stages; other recorded places stay in the text. Dashed connections pass intervening stages without a map position. They do not document a travel route or continuous service.

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

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

  1. 1

    1874/75 (AH 1291)

    Gümüşhane, Cami-i Kebir Mahallesi

    Not yet located on the map: Gümüşhane, Cami-i Kebir Mahallesi

    1. Birth

  2. 2

    1899/1900 (AH 1317)

    Gümüşhane / Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

    1. Gümüşhane

      First work as recorded

      Calculated age 26

    2. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

      Mahkeme-i Bidayet odacısı

      45 kuruşCalculated age 26

  3. 3

    1900/01 (AH 1318) · 11 recorded years

    Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

    AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325, 1326, 1327, 1328. Gaps remain open.

    Not yet located on the map: Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

    1. Mahkeme-i Bidayet odacısı

      45 kuruşCalculated age 27

      Continuing service as described

    2. Mahkeme-i Bidayet odacısı

      45 kuruşCalculated age 37

      Continuing service as described

    All 11 recorded entries in this stage →

  4. 4

    1911 (AH 1329)

    Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti / Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Şeriyesi

    Within-year entry order unresolved

    Not yet located on the map: Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti; Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Şeriyesi

    1. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti

      Mahkeme-i Bidayet odacısı

      45 kuruşCalculated age 38

      Continuing service as described

    2. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Şeriyesi

      Mahkeme-i Şeriye muhzırı

      Calculated age 38

    All 3 recorded entries in this stage →

1 entry without a resolved year

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

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

Current collection salary comparison

Dated AH salary records of the currently selected officials; undated evidence remains in the chronology.

Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only
Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

Use Enter, Space or ← / → on a salary point, or click the percentile panel to choose the nearest observed AH year. All yearly values appear below.

Marks show observed AH years only; gaps remain blank and no line implies continuous pay or service. The reference range includes the focal official when they are in the sample.

How the comparison is calculated

One highest recorded salary per official and AH year. Same-year medians, nearest-rank 10th and 90th percentiles, and relative standing are recomputed from the selected collection.

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.

View the yearly values
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 yearOfficial rateSample medianSample p10 to p90Paid lessN
1899/1900 (AH 1317)45400140 to 1,4402.1%1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)45400140 to 1,5002.0%1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)45400150 to 1,5201.9%1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)45400150 to 1,5002.0%1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)45405150 to 1,4502.3%1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)45400135 to 1,5002.2%1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)45430125 to 1,5002.6%1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)45450150 to 1,5252.0%1371
1907/08 (AH 1325)45460135 to 1,6152.2%1290
1908/09 (AH 1326)45400150 to 2,0001.2%1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)45600200 to 2,0000.5%1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)45500200 to 2,0000.5%732
1911 (AH 1329)150600250 to 2,5002.5%402

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

Kuruş · dated amounts

Select an amount for its date, post, place and age.

● Post entry● Retirement● Other status

Dated rates and labelled continuing-service entries, not total annual earnings. Missing amounts remain blank; zero remains zero.

Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries
  1. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti13
    1899 to 1911 (AH 1317 to 1329)
  2. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Şeriyesi1
    1911 (AH 1329)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate
  1. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Bidayeti45
  2. Gümüşhane Sancağı Mahkeme-i Şeriyesi150

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
  1. 1899 to 1911 (AH 1317 to 1329)
  2. 1911 (AH 1329)

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

All related groups and salary ranks

Education and personal record

Schooling Mekteb-i ibtidai [source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

  • Turkish · İfade-i meram edecek kadar okur yazar [source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
0 (recorded code) [source]
Judicial record as worded
0 (recorded code) [source]
All personal fields and their sources

Sources and evidence

  1. Meşîhat arşivi'ne göre Gümüşhaneli son dönem Osmanlı ulemâsı

    YUNUS EMRE NAYİR · 2025 · Pages 57, 58, 59

Read the original source accounts · 16 source entries →

The chronology groups compatible entries for reading. Each original account remains available with its wording, dates, amounts and archival reference.

Yearly entries and their source passages · 13 dated AH years

Annual salary study and register readings

The separate annual salary reference account has 15 entries. Its maps, salary comparisons, register readings and original values remain available in the study view.

Open the salary study and register readings →

How to read the records

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