Mehmet Besim Efendi
Mehmet Besim Efendi was born in Bitlis in AH 1294. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Mus in AH 1312 (18 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 3 distinct AH years between 1313 and 1317, with gaps; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Mus (300 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing). The October annual source marks a criminal-record indicator in AH 1316–1317; this is not a lifetime verdict.
Life and career
3 recorded AH years · 3 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1294
- AH 1312Birth-year difference: 18 AH years
- AH 1313Birth-year difference: 19 AH years
- AH 1314–1315No annual career entries
The source record is open here. A later change cannot be dated within this interval.
- AH 1316Birth-year difference: 22 AH years
- AH 1317Birth-year difference: 23 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 · mus · 300 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1312 in Mus. The first-salary field is 300 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.
No annual entries for AH 1314–1315. Changes span the gap.
Locality mus → karakilise
Locality karakilise → basra
Salary 300 to 430 kuruş +130 (+43.33%)
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.
Missing AH years: 1314–1315. Older source entries do not fill the selected annual chronology.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 1 source-recorded year
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Asker
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1294
- 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 1312 · 1894 label
- Place
- Mus
- First-salary field
- 300 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
Year-level criminal-record indicator
The October annual source marks “yes for this annual record” in AH 1316–1317.
This is the source’s labelled indicator for those annual entries, not a lifetime verdict or an adjudicated finding. All values, including zero and any differences across years, remain in the evidence below.
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 21638, 21639, 21640 Recorded source-year values: 1313, 1316, 1317 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Lagv | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 21812 Recorded source-year values: 1314 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 21811, 21814, 21815 Recorded source-year values: 1313, 1316, 1317 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | istifa | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 21816 Recorded source-year values: 1318 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Lagv | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 21812 Recorded source-year values: 1314 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 21811, 21814, 21815 Recorded source-year values: 1313, 1316, 1317 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | istifa | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 21816 Recorded source-year values: 1318 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1313 · AH source lines 38604 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 1 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1316 · AH source lines 45973 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 1 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1317 · AH source lines 48384 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1313 · AH source lines 21811 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1314 · AH source lines 21812 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1315 · AH source lines 21813 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1316 · AH source lines 21814 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1317 · AH source lines 21815 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1318 · AH source lines 21816 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1313 · AH source lines 21811 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1314 · AH source lines 21812 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1315 · AH source lines 21813 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1316 · AH source lines 21814 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1317 · AH source lines 21815 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 21816 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1313 · AH source lines 21811 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1314 · AH source lines 21812 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1315 · AH source lines 21813 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1316 · AH source lines 21814 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1317 · AH source lines 21815 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1318 · AH source lines 21816 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1313 · AH source lines 21811 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1314 · AH source lines 21812 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1315 · AH source lines 21813 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1316 · AH source lines 21814 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1317 · AH source lines 21815 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1318 · AH source lines 21816 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1313 · AH source lines 38604 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1316 · AH source lines 45973 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1317 · AH source lines 48384 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1313 · AH source lines 21639 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1316 · AH source lines 21638 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1317 · AH source lines 21640 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1313 · AH source lines 21639 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1316 · AH source lines 21638 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 1 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1317 · AH source lines 21640 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1895 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | mus | 300 | recovered line 20039 | |
| 1898 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | karakilise | 300 | recovered line 20040 | |
| 1899 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | basra | 430 | recovered line 20041 |
- AH 1313 · 1895 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
300 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 20039
- AH 1316 · 1898 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
300 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 20040
- AH 1317 · 1899 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
430 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 20041
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 · 3 annual entries
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported
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 | 1294 | recovered · dobirth source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| birthPlace | bitlis | recovered · birthplace source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| birthPlace | bitlis | recovered · birth_place source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| birthProvince | bitlis | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| fatherJob | Asker | recovered · fatherjob source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| fatherJob | asker | recovered · father_job source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| firstWorkH | 1312 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| firstWorkG | 1894 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| firstWorkPlace | Mus | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| birthLatitude | 38.40070399999991 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| birthLongitude | 42.108110000000075 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 20039, 20040, 20041 |
| name | Mehmet Besim Efendi | september · İsim source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| birthH | 1294 | september · dobirth source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| birthPlace | bitlis | september · birthplace source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| birthProvince | bitlis | september · birth_vilayet source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · mulazemet source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| fatherJob | asker | september · fatherjob source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| firstWorkH | 1312 | september · firstjob_year source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| firstWorkPlace | mus | september · firstjob_place source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| birthLatitude | 38.40070399999991 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| birthLongitude | 42.108110000000075 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 21638, 21639, 21640 |
| name | Mehmet Besim Efendi | older · İsim source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| birthH | 1294 | older · dobirth source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| birthPlace | bitlis | older · birthplace source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| birthProvince | bitlis | older · birth_vilayet source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| fatherJob | asker | older · fatherjob source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| firstWorkH | 1312 | older · firstjob_year source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| firstWorkPlace | mus | older · firstjob_place source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| birthLatitude | 38.40070399999991 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| birthLongitude | 42.108110000000075 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 5061, 5122, 5150, 5176, 5177, 5189 |
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, “Mehmet Besim Efendi”, archival reference 0087_0110; 217, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-c55f8fc844723866/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-c55f8fc844723866/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.