Mehmet İrfan Efendi
Mehmet İrfan Efendi was born in Istanbul / Dersaadet in AH 1300. Recorded schooling includes 7 years at Rusdiye Mektebi. First work is recorded in Istanbul in AH 1324 (24 AH years after the recorded birth year). The only surviving annual entry is AH 1325 with idare kalemi in Istanbul (30 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
1 recorded AH year · 1 annual entry
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1300
- AH 1324Birth-year difference: 24 AH years
- AH 1325Birth-year difference: 25 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 · AHidare kalemi · istanbul · 30 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1324 in istanbul. The first-salary field is 30 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
AH 1325 · 1907 label
One annual entry survives; there is no salary trajectory to draw.
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.
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
- 1 source-recorded year
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Ketebe
- Recorded birth year
- AH 1300
- 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 1324 · 1906 label
- Place
- istanbul
- First-salary field
- 30 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)
- Clerical and Administrative Staff
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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Download these additional source records (JSON)
| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Clerical and Administrative Staff | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 37264 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | idare kalemi | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 38501 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | idare kalemi | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 38501 Recorded source-year values: 1325 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 65632 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 38501 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 38501 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 38501 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 38501 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1325 · AH source lines 65632 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1325 · AH source lines 37264 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1325 · AH source lines 37264 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | idare kalemi | istanbul | 30 | recovered line 34935 |
- AH 1325 · 1907 label
idare kalemi
30 kuruş / monthrecovered · source line 34935
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
- Outside the paper sample
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Includes unresolved or conflicting geographic evidence
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 | 1300 | recovered · dobirth source lines 34935 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birthplace source lines 34935 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | recovered · birth_place source lines 34935 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 34935 |
| school | Rusdiye Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 34935 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · education_year source lines 34935 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | recovered · school_year source lines 34935 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 34935 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 34935 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 34935 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 34935 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 34935 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 34935 |
| fatherJob | Ketebe | recovered · fatherjob source lines 34935 |
| fatherJob | ketebe | recovered · father_job source lines 34935 |
| firstWorkH | 1324 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 34935 |
| firstWorkG | 1906 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 34935 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 34935 |
| firstWorkSalary | 30 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 34935 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 34935 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 34935 |
| name | Mehmet İrfan Efendi | september · İsim source lines 37264 |
| birthH | 1300 | september · dobirth source lines 37264 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | september · birthplace source lines 37264 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | september · birth_vilayet source lines 37264 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | september · school_type source lines 37264 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | september · education_year source lines 37264 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · mulazemet source lines 37264 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 37264 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 37264 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 37264 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 37264 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 37264 |
| fatherJob | ketebe | september · fatherjob source lines 37264 |
| firstWorkH | 1324 | september · firstjob_year source lines 37264 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | september · firstjob_place source lines 37264 |
| firstWorkSalary | 30 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 37264 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 37264 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 37264 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | september · lang_french2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 37264 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 37264 |
| name | Mehmet İrfan Efendi | older · İsim source lines 32712 |
| birthH | 1300 | older · dobirth source lines 32712 |
| birthPlace | dersaadet | older · birthplace source lines 32712 |
| birthProvince | dersaadet | older · birth_vilayet source lines 32712 |
| school | rusdiye mektebi | older · school_type source lines 32712 |
| schoolingYears | 7 | older · education_year source lines 32712 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 32712 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 32712 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 32712 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 32712 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 32712 |
| fatherJob | ketebe | older · fatherjob source lines 32712 |
| firstWorkH | 1324 | older · firstjob_year source lines 32712 |
| firstWorkPlace | istanbul | older · firstjob_place source lines 32712 |
| firstWorkSalary | 30 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 32712 |
| birthLatitude | 41.08488985821407 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 32712 |
| birthLongitude | 29.056960217582365 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 32712 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 0 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 0 | older · lang_french2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 32712 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 32712 |
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 İrfan Efendi”, archival reference 148-158-311, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-eb3d3b2af1b0724e/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-eb3d3b2af1b0724e/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.