Mehmet Şevket Efendi
Mehmet Şevket Efendi was born in Edirne in AH 1305. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Edirne in AH 1318 (13 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 3 distinct AH years between 1321 and 1323; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Sofulu (250 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
3 recorded AH years · 3 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1305
- AH 1318Birth-year difference: 13 AH years
- AH 1321Birth-year difference: 16 AH years
- AH 1322Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
- AH 1323Birth-year difference: 18 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 · sofulu · 250 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1318 in Edirne. The first-salary field is 250 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.
Locality sofulu → kirklareli
Locality kirklareli → derekoy
Salary 250 to 300 kuruş +50 (+20%)
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.
Preparation
- School / programme
- Rusdiye Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 7 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 3 source-recorded years
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- cavus
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1305
- 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 1318 · 1900 label
- Place
- Edirne
- First-salary field
- 250 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
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.
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| 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 32823, 32824, 32825 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 33824, 33825, 33826 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhabere Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 33824, 33825, 33826 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 58735 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 60977 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 62885 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 33824 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 33825 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 33826 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 33824 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 33825 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 33826 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 33824 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 33825 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 33826 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 33824 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 33825 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 33826 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1321 · AH source lines 58735 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1322 · AH source lines 60977 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 62885 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 32824 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 32823 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 32825 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 32824 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 32823 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 32825 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1903 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | sofulu | 250 | recovered line 30792 | |
| 1904 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | kirklareli | 250 | recovered line 30793 | |
| 1905 | Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru | derekoy | 300 | recovered line 30794 |
- AH 1321 · 1903 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
250 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 30792
- AH 1322 · 1904 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
250 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 30793
- AH 1323 · 1905 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
300 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 30794
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 | 1305 | recovered · dobirth source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| birthPlace | edirne | recovered · birthplace source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| birthPlace | edirne | recovered · birth_place source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| birthProvince | edirne | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| fatherJob | cavus | recovered · fatherjob source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| fatherJob | cavus | recovered · father_job source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| firstWorkH | 1318 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| firstWorkG | 1900 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| firstWorkPlace | Edirne | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| firstWorkSalary | 250 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| birthLatitude | 41.67622444502104 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| birthLongitude | 26.561680322613817 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 30792, 30793, 30794 |
| name | Mehmet Şevket Efendi | september · İsim source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| birthH | 1305 | september · dobirth source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| birthPlace | edirne | september · birthplace source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| birthProvince | edirne | september · birth_vilayet source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · mulazemet source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| fatherJob | cavus | september · fatherjob source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| firstWorkH | 1318 | september · firstjob_year source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| firstWorkPlace | edirne | september · firstjob_place source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| firstWorkSalary | 250 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| birthLatitude | 41.67622444502104 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| birthLongitude | 26.561680322613817 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 32823, 32824, 32825 |
| name | Mehmet Şevket Efendi | older · İsim source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| birthH | 1305 | older · dobirth source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| birthPlace | edirne | older · birthplace source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| birthProvince | edirne | older · birth_vilayet source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 3 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| fatherJob | cavus | older · fatherjob source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| firstWorkH | 1318 | older · firstjob_year source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| firstWorkPlace | edirne | older · firstjob_place source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| firstWorkSalary | 250 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| birthLatitude | 41.67622444502104 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| birthLongitude | 26.561680322613817 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 38657, 38698, 38802 |
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 Şevket Efendi”, archival reference 114_123; 241, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-e13dedd8428d65eb/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-e13dedd8428d65eb/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.