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Mehmed Şevket 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.

  1. 1887/88 (AH 1305)Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliğiGenç · 200 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 23 · 200 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      [1]

  2. 1888/89 (AH 1306)Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliğiGençContinuing service described by the source

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 24

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  3. 1889/90 (AH 1307)Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · 2 career entriesGenç · Kulb · 120 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 25

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Mal müdürlüğü vekâleti

      Kulb · Calculated age 25 · 120 kuruş

      [1]

  4. 1890/91 (AH 1308)Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · 4 career entriesGenç · Kulb · 120; 200 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 26

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Mal müdürlüğü vekâleti

      Kulb · Calculated age 26 · 120 kuruş

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    3. Mal müdürlüğü vekâleti (Görevin sona ermesi)

      Kulb · Calculated age 26

      Recorded service ending

      [1]

    4. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 26 · 200 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      [1]

  5. 1891/92 (AH 1309)Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · 2 career entriesGenç · 200; 270 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği

      Genç · Calculated age 27 · 200 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 27 · 270 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      [1]

  6. 1892/93 (AH 1310)Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliğiGenç · 270; 300 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 28 · 270 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 28 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      [1]

  7. 1893/94 (AH 1311)Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliğiGenç · 300 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 29 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  8. 1894/95 (AH 1312)Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliğiGenç · 300 kuruşContinuing service described by the source

    1. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 30 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

  9. 1895/96 (AH 1313)Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliğiGenç · 300; 350 kuruş

    1. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 31 · 300 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      Continuing service described by the source

      [1]

    2. Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği

      Genç · Calculated age 31 · 350 kuruş

      Broader service field: Finance and revenue

      [1]

  10. 1898/99 (AH 1316)Mal müdürlüğü (İnfisal) · 2 career entriesErciş · Gevaş · 500 kuruş

    1. Mal müdürlüğü (İnfisal)

      Erciş · Calculated age 34

      [1]

    2. Mal müdürlüğü

      Gevaş · Calculated age 34 · 500 kuruş

      [1]

  11. Undated entriesMuhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · 5 career entriesGenç · Kulb · Erciş · Gevaş · 175; 500; 540; 600 kuruş

    2. Mal müdürlüğü

      Kulb · 600 kuruş

      [1]

    3. Mal müdürlüğü

      Kulb · 540 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

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

02505001887/88AH 13051898/99AH 13161887/88 (AH 1305) · Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · Genç · age 23 · 200 kuruş1889/90 (AH 1307) · Mal müdürlüğü vekâleti · Kulb · age 25 · 120 kuruş1890/91 (AH 1308) · Mal müdürlüğü vekâleti · Kulb · age 26 · 120 kuruş · Source-bounded service1890/91 (AH 1308) · Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · Genç · age 26 · 200 kuruş1891/92 (AH 1309) · Muhasebe kalemi evrak mukayyitliği · Genç · age 27 · 200 kuruş · Source-bounded service1891/92 (AH 1309) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 27 · 270 kuruş1892/93 (AH 1310) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 28 · 270 kuruş · Source-bounded service1892/93 (AH 1310) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 28 · 300 kuruş1893/94 (AH 1311) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 29 · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service1894/95 (AH 1312) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 30 · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service1895/96 (AH 1313) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 31 · 300 kuruş · Source-bounded service1895/96 (AH 1313) · Muhasebe musahha-i ticariye kâtipliği · Genç · age 31 · 350 kuruş1898/99 (AH 1316) · Mal müdürlüğü · Gevaş · age 34 · 500 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Harput [source]
Birth year
1865/66 (AH 1282) [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
BOA. DH. SAİD 95-134 [1]

Education and languages

Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education detail
Rüşdiye tahsili tamamlanmadı; şehadetname alınamadı [source]
Education
Mamuratülaziz sıbyan mektebi; askerî rüşdiye [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
Genç [source]
First-salary field
175 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.

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.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i ahvâl defterlerine göre Harputlu devlet adamları

    ENES MUTLUAY · 2018 · Pages 221, 222

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