Mehmed Sezai Efendi

Born 1861/62 (AH 1278) · Safranbolu · Dated entries 1877 to 1902 (AH 1294 to 1319)

Languages Turkish

Archival references BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.102, s.203; BOA, DH SAİD nr.102, s.203

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmed Sezai Efendi was born in Safranbolu in 1861/62 (AH 1278), within the İslam community. The father’s occupation was Esnaf. Schooling included Sıbyan mektebi; Zağfiranbolu Rüşdiyesi. The language repertoire included Turkish.^[1]

Service began in Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi in 1877/78 (AH 1294). Dated career entries span 1877/78 (AH 1294) to 1901/02 (AH 1319) across 16 AH years, from Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi to Zeyid, beginning with telgraf mülazımı and ending with entries for telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi, Erzincan Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi, Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi and Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi and 6 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 380 kuruş in 1884/85 (AH 1302) to 1,500 kuruş in 1901/02 (AH 1319); the highest recorded monthly rate is 1,500 kuruş in 1899/1900 (AH 1317).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Safranbolu · 1861/62 (AH 1278)^[source]
Father’s occupation: Esnaf^[source]
Education: Sıbyan mektebi; Zağfiranbolu Rüşdiyesi^[source]
First work: 1877/78 (AH 1294) · Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi^[source]
Age at first work: 16^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.

Career in numbers

16
Dated AH years: 10
Career place names: 2
Entries without a resolved year: 14
Salary years: 380 → 1,500
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 1,500
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 88.8%
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. 1884/85 (AH 1302) to 1901/02 (AH 1319); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1901/02 (AH 1319).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 12 · Safranbolu

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

1
1861/62 (AH 1278)
Safranbolu
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1877/78 (AH 1294)
Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 16
  Personal record & evidence →
2. telgraf mülazımı
  Calculated age 16
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1884/85 (AH 1302)
Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi / Erzincan Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi / Place not recorded / Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi; Erzincan Telgraf ve Posta Merkezi; Location not recorded; Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
1. Zağfiranbolu telgrafhanesi
  telgraf mülazımı (Görevin sona ermesi)
  Calculated age 24
  Recorded service ending
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
  Telgraf Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 5 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1885/86 (AH 1303) · 4 recorded years
Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
AH entries: 1303, 1304, 1305, 1306. Gaps remain open.
Not yet located on the map: Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
1. Telgraf Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Telgraf Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 28
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1889/90 (AH 1307)
Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi / Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi; Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi
1. Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi
  Telgraf Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 29
  Entry & evidence →[1]
6
1890/91 (AH 1308)
Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi / Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi; Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
1. Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 30
  Entry & evidence →[1]
7
1891/92 (AH 1309)
Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
Not yet located on the map: Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
1. Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 31
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1892/93 (AH 1310)
Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi / Cidde telgraf ve posta merkezi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi; Cidde telgraf ve posta merkezi
1. Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  380 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Cidde telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  700 kuruşCalculated age 32
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1894/95 (AH 1312) · 3 recorded years
Crete (Girit)
AH entries: 1312, 1313, 1314. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  600 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  540 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
10
1898/99 (AH 1316)
Midilli telgraf ve posta merkezi / İmran
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Midilli telgraf ve posta merkezi; İmran
1. Midilli telgraf ve posta merkezi
  Muhabere Memuru
  540 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. İmran
  telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  1,240 kuruşCalculated age 38
  Entry & evidence →[1]
11
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
İmran
Not yet located on the map: İmran
1. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 39
  Entry & evidence →[1]
12
1901/02 (AH 1319)
Zeyid
Not yet located on the map: Zeyid
1. telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 41
  Entry & evidence →[1]

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.

Azil · Undated 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

Current collection salary comparison

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Monthly rate and same-year salariesNominal monthly kuruş · log scale · annual entries only

Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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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
1884/85 (AH 1302)	380	400	150 to 1,500	43.6%	1748
1885/86 (AH 1303)	380	400	150 to 1,500	43.2%	1787
1886/87 (AH 1304)	380	400	150 to 1,500	44.3%	1725
1887/88 (AH 1305)	380	400	150 to 1,500	42.5%	1762
1888/89 (AH 1306)	380	400	135 to 1,500	44.2%	1797
1889/90 (AH 1307)	380	400	130 to 1,500	44.4%	1874
1890/91 (AH 1308)	380	400	125 to 1,500	43.9%	1896
1891/92 (AH 1309)	380	400	140 to 1,600	43.8%	1927
1892/93 (AH 1310)	700	400	135 to 1,500	73.3%	1935
1894/95 (AH 1312)	600	400	140 to 1,500	65.6%	2004
1896/97 (AH 1314)	540	450	150 to 1,575	61.1%	2119
1898/99 (AH 1316)	1,240	400	144 to 1,400	87.9%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,500	400	140 to 1,440	90.3%	1821
1901/02 (AH 1319)	1,500	400	150 to 1,520	88.8%	1666

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi6
1884 to 1890 (AH 1302 to 1307)
Crete (Girit)3
1894 to 1897 (AH 1312 to 1314)
Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi3
1890 to 1893 (AH 1308 to 1310)
Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi2
1889 to 1891 (AH 1307 to 1308)
İmran2
1898 to 1900 (AH 1316 to 1317)
Cidde telgraf ve posta merkezi1
1892/93 (AH 1310)

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

Rodos merkezi telgrafhanesi380
Crete (Girit)540 to 600
Edremit telgraf ve posta merkezi380
Ayvalık telgraf ve posta merkezi380
İmran1,240 to 1,500
Cidde telgraf ve posta merkezi700

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

Muhabere Memuru6
1884 to 1899 (AH 1302 to 1316)
Telgraf Memuru6
1884 to 1890 (AH 1302 to 1307)
telgraf ve posta merkezi müdürü6
1894 to 1902 (AH 1312 to 1319)
Infisal1
1884/85 (AH 1302)
telgraf mülazımı1
1877/78 (AH 1294)

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

Safranbolu88 other officialsEstefan Efendi born 1861/62 (AH 1278); highest salary 500 kuruş
Crete (Girit)6 other officialsTurhan Hüsnü Beğ 2 shared years; highest salary 40,000 kuruş
1877/78 (AH 1294)160 other officialsAbdulkadir Efendi first annual entry 1877/78 (AH 1294); highest salary 400 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Schooling Sıbyan mektebi; Zağfiranbolu Rüşdiyesi^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

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

Turkish · Kitâbetokur yazar^[1]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

Sicill-iahval defterlerindeki Safranbolulu (Zağfiranbolulu) memurlar (1879-1909)
AHMET ERKARTAL · 2007 · Pages 107, 108
71 BOA, DH SA ĐD nr.102, s.203; BOA, DH SAİD nr.102, s.203

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