Official
Dimitri Aleksandridi Efendi
Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum). Born in Istanbul (Dersaadet) in 1833/34 (AH 1249). On record 1863 to 1883, 20 annual entries.
Archive reference 015_0031; 59
Life#
Dimitri Aleksandridi Efendi was born in Istanbul in 1833/34 (AH 1249). The record gives the community as Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum) and the father's occupation as Mimar.
Schooling recorded: Tıbbiye Mektebi (School of Medicine), with 14 years of schooling recorded. The record marks a qualification: a diploma, certificate, training or decoration (nişan). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: French, with Kitabet; Greek (Rum), with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Istanbul in 1862/63 (AH 1279): Telgraf. The official was then about 29 years old. The record gives 1 year of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet) before the first salary. The first-salary field gives 500 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1863/64, the official was about 30 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1863/64, shows Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul, with 500 kuruş a month. In 1864/65 the record shows no title (before: Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul). In 1865/66 the record shows Kontrol Kalemi Basmemuru in Vlorë (Avlonya), with 1,200 kuruş a month (before: no title). In 1867/68 the record shows Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul, the salary going from 1,200 to 380 kuruş a month (before: Kontrol Kalemi Basmemuru in Vlorë). In 1880/81 the record shows Müdür Muavini in Istanbul, the salary going from 950 to 1,200 kuruş a month (before: Muhasebe Kalemi in Istanbul). No annual entry is recorded for 1866/67.
The highest salary, 1,200 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1865/66 as Kontrol Kalemi Basmemuru. 71 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 650 kuruş. Over 19 years with a salary the median is 950 kuruş a month, with 7 rises and 2 cuts. The largest rise, 700 kuruş, is seen in 1865/66. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 4.47 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1882/83, when 86 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1833/34 (AH 1249)
- Birthplace
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- Community
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- Nationality as recorded
- Rum
- Father's occupation
- Mimar
Education
- Higher or professional
- Tıbbiye Mektebi (14 years)School of Medicine
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 1 year
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Other High
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- Yes
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- French
- Kitabetwriting
- Greek (Rum)
- Kitabetwriting. Rum is the word of the records for Greek as spoken by the Orthodox Christians of the empire. It is kept apart from the column Greek, which the records also have
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1862/63 (AH 1279)
- Place
- Istanbul (Dersaadet)
- First job as worded
- Telgraf
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 18
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 500
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 500
Notes from the record
- Merit and competence grade (recorded code)
- 1
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1862/63AH 1279 | Telgraffirst work | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 500first-salary field |
| 1863/64AH 1280 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 500 |
| 1864/65AH 1281 | |||
| 1865/66AH 1282 | Kontrol Kalemi Basmemuru | Vlorë (Avlonya) | 1,200 |
| No annual entry: 1866/67 (AH 1283) | |||
| 1867 to 1880AH 1284 to 1297 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 380 to 950 |
| 1880 to 1883AH 1298 to 1300 | Müdür Muavini | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,200 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1863/64 | 500 | 500 | 500 | 32% |
| 1865/66 | 1,200 | 650 | 71% | |
| 1867/68 | 380 | 600 | 392 | 15% |
| 1868/69 | 400 | 600 | 450 | 17% |
| 1869/70 | 400 | 600 | 400 | 18% |
| 1870/71 | 400 | 600 | 475 | 20% |
| 1871/72 | 400 | 550 | 535 | 31% |
| 1872/73 | 650 | 550 | 632.5 | 59% |
| 1873/74 | 800 | 500 | 450 | 70% |
| 1874/75 | 850 | 535 | 340 | 73% |
| 1875/76 | 1,000 | 530 | 280 | 78% |
| 1876/77 | 1,000 | 582.5 | 400 | 77% |
| 1877/78 | 1,000 | 560 | 400 | 79% |
| 1878 | 1,000 | 600 | 400 | 76% |
| 1878/79 | 1,000 | 600 | 400 | 77% |
| 1879/80 | 950 | 500 | 380 | 83% |
| 1880/81 | 1,200 | 500 | 87% | |
| 1881/82 | 1,200 | 500 | 86% | |
| 1882/83 | 1,200 | 500 | 86% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Mehmet Celalettin EfendiIstanbul, 18 shared years
- Mehmet sakir BeyIstanbul, 18 shared years
- Ali Rıza EfendiIstanbul, 18 shared years
- Mehmet Pertev BeyIstanbul, 18 shared years
- Mehmet Ali EfendiIstanbul, 18 shared years
587 officials in all. Officials recorded in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Same school recorded
- Mehmet Pertev BeyTıbbiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1862/63 (AH 1279)
- Yusuf Agah EfendiTıbbiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1860/61 (AH 1277)
- İsmail Hakkı EfendiTıbbiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1867/68 (AH 1284)
- Süleyman Fevzi EfendiTıbbiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1858/59 (AH 1275)
- Mustafa Musli EfendiTıbbiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1869/70 (AH 1286)
15 officials in all. Officials with Tıbbiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Abdülkerim EfendiIstanbul, born 1833/34 (AH 1249)
- Ali Riza EfendiIstanbul, born 1833/34 (AH 1249)
- Ali Rıza EfendiIstanbul, born 1833/34 (AH 1249)
- Hacı Mehmet Emin EfendiIstanbul, born 1833/34 (AH 1249)
- Hüsnü EfendiIstanbul, born 1833/34 (AH 1249)
1,998 officials in all. Officials born in Istanbul (Dersaadet)
Full record
Annual entries (20)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1863/64AH 1280 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 500 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1864/65AH 1281 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 015_0031; 59 | |||
| 1865/66AH 1282 | Kontrol Kalemi Basmemuru | Vlorë (Avlonya) | 1,200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1867/68AH 1284 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 380 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1868/69AH 1285 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1869/70AH 1286 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1870/71AH 1287 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1871/72AH 1288 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1872/73AH 1289 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 650 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1873/74AH 1290 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 800 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1874/75AH 1291 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 850 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1875/76AH 1292 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1876/77AH 1293 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1877/78AH 1294 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1878AH 1295 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1878/79AH 1296 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,000 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1879/80AH 1297 | Muhasebe Kalemi | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 950 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1880/81AH 1298 | Müdür Muavini | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1881/82AH 1299 | Müdür Muavini | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
| 1882/83AH 1300 | Müdür Muavini | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 1,200 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 015_0031; 59 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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 (25)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Dimitri Aleksandridi Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1249 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | dersaadet used on this page | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | istanbul other value | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | dersaadet | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | mimar | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | Hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | Rum | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Tibbiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 14 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 1 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1279 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1862 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | istanbul | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | istanbul | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Telgraf | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 18 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 500 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 500 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Other recorded values | ||
| Merit and competence grade (recorded code) | 1 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- 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.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 14 annual entries of 20 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.