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Mehmet Şerif Efendi

Birthplace: sam Observed AH 1319–1323

116_161; 319Preserved archival reference
Recovered annual record

A short account from recorded fields

Mehmet Şerif Efendi was born in Sam in AH 1297. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Maras in AH 1314 (17 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 4 distinct AH years between 1319 and 1323, with gaps; it begins with Muhabere Memuru in Manastir (200 kuruş monthly). Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti appears later, in AH 1321 (200 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); Arabic: Kitabet (writing).

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Life and career

4 recorded AH years · 4 annual entries

Life and career stages

Recorded AH years

AH 1297
AH 1314Birth-year difference: 17 AH years
AH 1319Birth-year difference: 22 AH years
AH 1320
No annual career entries
The source record is open here. A later change cannot be dated within this interval.
AH 1321–1323Birth-year difference: 24–26 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.

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Assigned salary in the annual career

Monthly kuruş · AH

Annual career record begins at AH 1319

Muhabere Memuru · manastir · 200 kuruş monthly

First work is separately recorded at AH 1314 in Maras. The first-salary field is 200 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.

AH 1314 · 1896 labelRecorded first-work anchorMaras

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

AH 1314 · 1896 labelRecorded first-work anchorMaras

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No annual entries for AH 1320. Changes span the gap.
Title Muhabere Memuru → Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Locality manastir → beyoglu
Salary 200 to 300 kuruş +100 (+50%)

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.

Missing AH years: 1320. Older source entries do not fill the selected annual chronology.

Recorded background

Preparation

School / programme: Rusdiye Mektebi
Schooling duration: 7 source-recorded years
Apprenticeship: 5 source-recorded years
Qualification indicator: 1
Telegraph school indicator: 0
Father’s occupation: Binbasi
Recorded birth year: AH 1297
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.

Explicit source fields

First-work and entry-pay fields

First-work source date: AH 1314 · 1896 label
Place: Maras
First-salary field: 200 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

2 fields contain historical terms.

Turkish: Kitabet (writing)
Arabic: 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
FL Communication and Telegraph

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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 34001 Recorded source-year values: 1319
Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording	FL Communication and Telegraph	september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 34002, 34003, 34004 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Aciga cikarildi	eda-memur · currentjob source lines 35080 Recorded source-year values: 1320
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti	eda-memur · currentjob source lines 35081, 35082, 35083 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Muhabere Memuru	eda-memur · currentjob source lines 35079 Recorded source-year values: 1319
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Aciga cikarildi	eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 35080 Recorded source-year values: 1320
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti	eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 35081, 35082, 35083 Recorded source-year values: 1321, 1322, 1323
Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording	Muhabere Memuru	eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 35079 Recorded source-year values: 1319
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict	0	october10-personnel · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 53990
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict	0	october10-personnel · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 58920
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict	0	october10-personnel · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 61097
Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict	0	october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 62966
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 35079
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 35081
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 35082
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 35083
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	1	eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1320 · AH source lines 35080
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 35079
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 35081
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 35082
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 35083
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	1	eda-memur · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 35080
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 35079
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 35081
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 35082
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 35083
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	1	eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1320 · AH source lines 35080
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 35079
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 35081
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 35082
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 35083
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	1	eda-memureski · criminal AH 1320 · AH source lines 35080
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion	0	october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1319 · AH source lines 53990
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion	0	october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1321 · AH source lines 58920
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion	0	october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1322 · AH source lines 61097
Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion	0	october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 62966
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1319 · AH source lines 34001
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1321 · AH source lines 34004
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 34003
adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 34002
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · criminal AH 1319 · AH source lines 34001
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · criminal AH 1321 · AH source lines 34004
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 34003
criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion	0	september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 34002

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Gregorian label	Title	Locality wording	Monthly kuruş	Source line
1901	Muhabere MemuruOriginal: muhabere memuru	manastir	200	recovered line 31923
1903	Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti	beyoglu	200	recovered line 31924
1904	Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti	beyoglu	200	recovered line 31925
1905	Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti	beyoglu	300	recovered line 31926

AH 1319 · 1901 label
Muhabere Memuru
Original title: muhabere memuru
manastir
200 kuruş / month
recovered · source line 31923
AH 1321 · 1903 label
Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Original title: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti
beyoglu
200 kuruş / month
recovered · source line 31924
AH 1322 · 1904 label
Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Original title: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti
beyoglu
200 kuruş / month
recovered · source line 31925
AH 1323 · 1905 label
Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Original title: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti
beyoglu
300 kuruş / month
recovered · source line 31926

Evidence & edition

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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 · 4 annual entries
Other archival labels: No different label recorded
Geography: Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported

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All substantive source assertions (82)

Field	Original stored value	Source field and lines
birthH	1297	recovered · dobirth source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
birthPlace	sam	recovered · birthplace source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
birthPlace	sam	recovered · birth_place source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
birthProvince	suriye	recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
school	Rusdiye Mektebi	recovered · school_type source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
schoolingYears	7	recovered · education_year source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
schoolingYears	7	recovered · school_year source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
apprenticeshipYears	5	recovered · mulazemet source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
qualification	1	recovered · qualification source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
derivedQualificationFlag	1	recovered · has_qualification source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
telegraphSchool	0	recovered · telgraf source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
religion	Musluman	recovered · religion source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
nationality	Turkish	recovered · nationality source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
fatherJob	Binbasi	recovered · fatherjob source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
fatherJob	binbasi	recovered · father_job source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
firstWorkH	1314	recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
firstWorkG	1896	recovered · firstjobyear source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
firstWorkPlace	Maras	recovered · firstjob_place source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
firstWorkSalary	200	recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
birthLatitude	33.518970999999944	recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
birthLongitude	36.291370999999664	recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 31923, 31924, 31925, 31926
name	Mehmet Şerif Efendi	september · İsim source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
birthH	1297	september · dobirth source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
birthPlace	sam	september · birthplace source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
birthProvince	suriye	september · birth_vilayet source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
school	rusdiye mektebi	september · school_type source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
schoolingYears	7	september · education_year source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
apprenticeshipYears	5	september · mulazemet source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
apprenticeshipYears	5	september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
qualification	1	september · qualification source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
telegraphSchool	0	september · telegraph_school source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
religion	musluman	september · religion source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
nationality	turkish	september · nationality source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
fatherJob	binbasi	september · fatherjob source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
firstWorkH	1314	september · firstjob_year source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
firstWorkPlace	maras	september · firstjob_place source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
firstWorkSalary	200	september · firstjob_wage source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
birthLatitude	33.518970999999944	september · lat_birth_place source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
birthLongitude	36.291370999999664	september · lon_birth_place source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
language:Turkish	Kitabet	september · lang_turkish source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish	3	september · lang_turkish2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
language:Arabic	Kitabet	september · lang_arabic source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic	2	september · lang_arabic2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:French	0	september · lang_french2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Persian	0	september · lang_persian2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:English	0	september · lang_english2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Italian	0	september · lang_italian2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian	0	september · lang_armenian2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Greek	0	september · lang_greek2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Rum	0	september · lang_rum2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian	0	september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
derivedLanguageCode:Russian	0	september · lang_russian2 source lines 34001, 34002, 34003, 34004
name	Mehmet Şerif Efendi	older · İsim source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
birthH	1297	older · dobirth source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
birthPlace	sam	older · birthplace source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
birthProvince	suriye	older · birth_vilayet source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
school	rusdiye mektebi	older · school_type source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
schoolingYears	7	older · education_year source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
apprenticeshipYears	5	older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
qualification	1	older · qualification source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
telegraphSchool	0	older · telgraph_school source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
religion	musluman	older · religion source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
nationality	turkish	older · nationality source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
fatherJob	binbasi	older · fatherjob source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
firstWorkH	1314	older · firstjob_year source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
firstWorkPlace	maras	older · firstjob_place source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
firstWorkSalary	200	older · firstjob_wage source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
birthLatitude	33.518970999999944	older · lat_birth_place source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
birthLongitude	36.291370999999664	older · lon_birth_place source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
language:Turkish	Kitabet	older · lang_turkish source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Turkish	3	older · lang_turkish2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
language:Arabic	Kitabet	older · lang_arabic source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Arabic	2	older · lang_arabic2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:French	0	older · lang_french2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Persian	0	older · lang_persian2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:English	0	older · lang_english2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Italian	0	older · lang_italian2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Armenian	0	older · lang_armenian2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Greek	0	older · lang_greek2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Rum	0	older · lang_rum2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian	0	older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790
derivedLanguageCode:Russian	0	older · lang_russian2 source lines 58460, 58513, 58617, 58756, 58790

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Ottoman Bureaucracy, “Mehmet Şerif Efendi”, archival reference 116_161; 319, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-e3d3ce0b2da3ffdc/.

Stable archival identity: /people/p-e3d3ce0b2da3ffdc/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.