Official
Mehmet Adil Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Amasya in 1872/73 (AH 1289). On record 1901 to 1906, 5 annual entries.
Archive reference 118-106-207
Life#
Mehmet Adil Efendi was born in Amasya in 1872/73 (AH 1289) into the Muslim (Müslüman) community; the father was a director (müdür). Schooling took seven years, at a middle school (Rüşdiye Mektebi).
Mehmet Adil began work in Amasya in 1897/98, at about 25, with four unpaid years as a mülazım (apprentice) before a first salary of 200 kuruş. Every annual entry from 1901/02 to 1905/06 places Mehmet Adil in the same post, communications official (Muhabere Memuru), in Amasya, the birthplace.
The salary went from 200 kuruş a month in 1901/02 to 250 in 1905/06, the peak, as Muhabere Memuru in Amasya, when 14 per cent of paid officials earned less. Over five years the salaries add up to 12,600 kuruş, 43 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1905/06. Mehmet Adil probably has an entry in "Sicill-i Ahval kayıtlarına göre Amasyalı memurlar" by SELÇUK SARI (2013) (the name, the birthplace and a place of service agree).
Career and salary#
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02 | 200 | 500 | 400 | 9% |
| 1902/03 | 200 | 500 | 380 | 9% |
| 1903/04 | 200 | 475 | 350 | 8% |
| 1904/05 | 200 | 450 | 350 | 8% |
| 1905/06 | 250 | 475 | 330 | 14% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Point at a year for its salary, title, place and the median of all officials paid that year. Choose a row of the table to mark its years in the charts and its stop on the map.
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1897/98AH 1315 | First work | Amasya | 200first-salary field |
| 1901 to 1906AH 1319 to 1323 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 200 to 250 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1872/73 (AH 1289)
- Birthplace
- Amasya
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- mudur
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school)
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 4 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1897/98 (AH 1315)
- Place
- Amasya
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 200
Named in scholarly works#
No link between a work and an official has been accepted. Each entry was found by fixed rules on the name and the recorded fields, and says what it rests on.
Sicill-i Ahval kayıtlarına göre Amasyalı memurlar (SELÇUK SARI, 2013). Name as printed: Mehmet Adil Efendi. Printed page 106, PDF page 112.
Probable link: same name and birthplace; served in the place the work covers
Recorded with#
Officials who share a place, a job title, a school, a birthplace or the year of the first annual entry. Ranks compare the highest monthly salary of each official.
Same place, same years
Of the 10 officials with entries in Amasya in the same years, Mehmet Adil Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Mustafa Fehmi Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 380 kuruş
- Hüseyin Rüştü Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 1,000 kuruş
- Hafız Yusuf Hüsamettin Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 495 kuruş
- Hasan Tahsin Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 495 kuruş
- Mehmet Tahir Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 1,750 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 1,333 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, Mehmet Adil Efendi had the 1,104th highest salary.
- Mehmet Hulusi Bey5 shared years; highest salary 2,600 kuruş
- Mustafa Fazıl Bey5 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Mehmet Sadullah Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,650 kuruş
- Mehmet Asım Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,550 kuruş
- Mehmet Hurşit Efendi5 shared years; highest salary 1,500 kuruş
Same school
Of the 3,206 officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi among their schools, 3,200 have a recorded salary; Mehmet Adil Efendi had the 2,552nd highest salary of them.
- Abdulgafur Sırrı Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Abdullah Arif Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 600 kuruş
- Abdullah Behçet Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 600 kuruş
- Abdüllatif Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 520 kuruş
- Abdurrahman Akif Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 11 officials born in Amasya, Mehmet Adil Efendi had the lowest salary.
- Ziya Efendiborn 1876/77 (AH 1293); highest salary 900 kuruş
- Mustafa Nuri Efendiborn 1867/68 (AH 1284); highest salary 400 kuruş
- İbrahim Ethem Efendiborn 1878 (AH 1295); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmet Rüştü Efendiborn 1881/82 (AH 1299); highest salary 300 kuruş
- Hasan Sıtkı Efendiborn 1861/62 (AH 1278); highest salary 350 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 131 officials whose first annual entry is for 1901/02 (AH 1319), Mehmet Adil Efendi had the 92nd highest salary.
- OSMAN NURİ EFENDİfirst entry in Damascus (Şam); highest salary 800 kuruş
- Abdullah Avni Efendifirst entry in Ürgüp; highest salary 380 kuruş
- Ahmet Nazım Efendifirst entry in Beyoğlu; highest salary 425 kuruş
- Kosti Kostantin Efendifirst entry in Skopje (Üsküp); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Nuri Efendifirst entry in Beyoğlu; highest salary 250 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (5)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 118-106-207 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 118-106-207 |
| 1903/04AH 1321 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 118-106-207 |
| 1904/05AH 1322 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 118-106-207 |
| 1905/06AH 1323 | Muhabere Memuru | Amasya | 250 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 118-106-207 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (14)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Adil Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1289 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | amasya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | sivas | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | mudur | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1315 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1897 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Amasya | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 200 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 5 annual entries of 5 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.
Subjects
- Mehmet Adil Efendi
- Communications official (Muhabere Memuru)
- Amasya
- Rüşdiye school (Rüşdiye Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Biography of an Ottoman official (Osmanlı memurunun biyografisi)
- Career and pay (memuriyet ve maaş)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)