Official
İspiro Efendi
Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum). Born in Rhodes (Rodos) in 1874/75 (AH 1291). On record 1900 to 1903, 3 annual entries.
Archive reference 116_204; 405
Life#
İspiro Efendi was born in Rhodes (Rodos) in 1874/75 (AH 1291) into the Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum) community. Schooling took four years, at a Greek Orthodox school (Rum Mektebi); İspiro also wrote French, Greek (Rum) and Turkish.
Work began in Rhodes in 1894/95, at about 20, with six unpaid years as a mülazım (apprentice) before a first salary of 100 kuruş. The annual lists begin in 1900/01, with İspiro as a communications official (Muhabere Memuru) in Istanbul. The last posts were in Jaffa (Yafa) from 1901 to 1903.
The salary went from 100 kuruş a month in 1900/01 to 400 in 1901/02, the peak, as Muhabere Memuru in Jaffa, when one in three paid officials earned less. Over three years the salaries add up to 10,800 kuruş, 60 per cent of what an official on the median salary earned. The final annual entry is for 1902/03.
Places in order of time#
Each number is a stop: the birthplace, the place of first work, then every place of the annual entries in turn. The year beside an arrow is the first entry at the new place.
Born 1874/75 (AH 1291); First work 1894/95 (AH 1312)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900/01 | 100 | 500 | 400 | 1% |
| 1901/02 | 400 | 500 | 400 | 32% |
| 1902/03 | 400 | 500 | 380 | 33% |
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) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1894/95AH 1312 | First work | Rhodes (Rodos) | 100first-salary field |
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 |
| 1901 to 1903AH 1319 to 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Jaffa (Yafa) | 400 |
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1874/75 (AH 1291)
- Birthplace
- Rhodes (Rodos)
- Community
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- Nationality as recorded
- Rum
Education
- Community school
- Rum Mektebi (4 years)Greek Orthodox (Rum) school
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 6 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- NoShown as in the flag of the paper. The qualification column of the recovered extract gives 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
- 1894/95 (AH 1312)
- Place
- Rhodes (Rodos)
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 100
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 9 officials with entries in Jaffa (Yafa) in the same years, İspiro Efendi had the 6th highest salary.
- Salamon Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Solomon Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 600 kuruş
- Hanna Efendi2 shared years; highest salary 500 kuruş
- Unnamed official (0157_0180; 355)2 shared years; highest salary 400 kuruş
- Mehmet Bahaettin Efendi1 shared year; highest salary 600 kuruş
Same job title, same years
Of the 1,064 officials with the title Muhabere Memuru in the same years, İspiro Efendi had the 644th highest salary.
- Mehmet Hulusi Bey3 shared years; highest salary 2,600 kuruş
- Mustafa Fazıl Bey3 shared years; highest salary 1,700 kuruş
- Mehmet Sadullah Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 1,650 kuruş
- Mehmet Asım Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 1,550 kuruş
- Mehmet Hurşit Efendi3 shared years; highest salary 1,500 kuruş
Same school
Of the 61 officials with Rum Mektebi among their schools, İspiro Efendi had the 52nd highest salary.
- Faik Efendiborn 1875/76 (AH 1292); highest salary 600 kuruş
- Yanko Efendiborn 1875/76 (AH 1292); highest salary 300 kuruş
- İSTEFAN VELED-İ NİKOLAYİDİ EFENDİborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Kosti Efendiborn 1870/71 (AH 1287); highest salary 400 kuruş
- Yuvan Fahri Efendiborn 1870/71 (AH 1287); highest salary 380 kuruş
Same birthplace
Of the 7 officials born in Rhodes (Rodos), İspiro Efendi had the 5th highest salary.
- Abdullah Efendiborn 1873/74 (AH 1290); highest salary 720 kuruş
- Ali Rıza Efendiborn 1872/73 (AH 1289); highest salary 600 kuruş
- ETHEM FETHİ EFENDİborn 1871/72 (AH 1288); highest salary 500 kuruş
- Mehmet Talat Efendiborn 1868/69 (AH 1285); highest salary 250 kuruş
- Arnest Lapir Efendiborn 1861/62 (AH 1278); highest salary 500 kuruş
First annual entry in the same year
Of the 140 officials whose first annual entry is for 1900/01 (AH 1318), 139 have a recorded salary; İspiro Efendi had the 54th highest salary of them.
- Mehmet Nuri Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 200 kuruş
- Mehmet Kani Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 800 kuruş
- Hurşit Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 275 kuruş
- Avram Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 150 kuruş
- Hafız İsmail Ataullah Efendifirst entry in Istanbul; highest salary 280 kuruş
Full record
Annual entries (3)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1900/01AH 1318 | Muhabere Memuru | Istanbul (Dersaadet) | 100 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_204; 405 |
| 1901/02AH 1319 | Muhabere Memuru | Jaffa (Yafa) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_204; 405 |
| 1902/03AH 1320 | Muhabere Memuru | Jaffa (Yafa) | 400 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 116_204; 405 |
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 (13)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | İspiro Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birth year (AH) | 1291 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Birthplace | rodos | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Province of birth | cezairi bahri sefid | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Religion | Hristiyan | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Nationality or community | Rum | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rum Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of schooling | 4 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 6 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1312 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1894 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | Rodos | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 100 | 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.
- 3 annual entries of 3 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
- İspiro Efendi
- Communications official (Muhabere Memuru)
- Jaffa (Yafa)
- Rhodes (Rodos)
- Greek Orthodox (Rum) school (Rum Mektebi)
- Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf)
- Greek Orthodox Christian (Rum)
- 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)