Mehmed Ragıb Efendi

Born 1875/76 (AH 1292) · Plovdiv (Filibe) · Dated entries 1894 to 1911 (AH 1312 to 1329)

Languages French, Turkish

Archival reference BOA, HR.SAİD, No. 23, Gömlek No. 18, 10-9-5-3-2

The career, year by year

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The life

Mehmed Ragıb Efendi was born in Plovdiv (Filibe) in 1875/76 (AH 1292). Schooling included Filibe Rüşdiye Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani. The language repertoire included French and Turkish.^[source]

Service began in Plovdiv (Filibe) in 1894/95 (AH 1312). Dated career entries span 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 1911 (AH 1329) across 18 AH years, from Plovdiv (Filibe) to Savuçbulak, beginning with İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli and ending with entries for Savuçbulak şehbenderi. More than one post or place appears in 5 of those years. Place names include Plovdiv (Filibe), Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi, Batumi (Batum) and Hariciye Nezareti and 1 other named places.^[1]

Monthly pay went from 500 kuruş in 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 2,000 kuruş in 1911 (AH 1329); the highest recorded monthly rate is 2,000 kuruş in 1910/11 (AH 1328).^[1]

Personal record

Birth: Plovdiv (Filibe) · 1875/76 (AH 1292)^[source]
Education: Filibe Rüşdiye Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani^[source]
First work: 1894/95 (AH 1312) · Plovdiv (Filibe)^[source]
Age at first work: 20^[source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First salary: 500 kuruş^[source]Personal salary figure; not tied to a specific appointment.

Career in numbers

18
Dated AH years: 5
Career place names: 17
Salary years: 500 → 2,000
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month: 2,000
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month: 81.5%
Peers paid less in last year

About these numbers

Dated AH years. Across career and documentary records; not tenure.
Career place names. Distinct place labels; some may not be mapped.
Salary years. One highest recorded monthly rate per official-year; gaps are blank.
Annual series: first → last kuruş/month. 1894/95 (AH 1312) to 1911 (AH 1329); nominal rates in observed years.
Peak in annual series, kuruş/month. 1910/11 (AH 1328)
Peers paid less in last year. Share of other officials in the annual salary reference with lower pay in 1911 (AH 1329).

Life and career

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Stage 1 of 9 · Plovdiv (Filibe)

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Entries within the same AH year are not ordered. Stages with more than one located locality remain unconnected; each source place stays visible.

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1
1875/76 (AH 1292)
Plovdiv (Filibe)
1. Birth
  Personal record & evidence →
2
1894/95 (AH 1312)
Plovdiv (Filibe)
Within-year entry order unresolved
1. First work as recorded
  Calculated age 20
  Personal record & evidence →
2. İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli
  500 kuruşCalculated age 20
  Entry & evidence →[1]
3
1895/96 (AH 1313) · 4 recorded years
Plovdiv (Filibe)
AH entries: 1313, 1314, 1315, 1316. Gaps remain open.
1. İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli
  500 kuruşCalculated age 21
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli
  500 kuruşCalculated age 24
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
4
1899/1900 (AH 1317)
Plovdiv (Filibe) / Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
1. Plovdiv (Filibe)
  İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli
  500 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
  Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi memuru
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 25
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 3 recorded entries in this stage →
5
1900/01 (AH 1318) · 8 recorded years
Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
AH entries: 1318, 1319, 1320, 1321, 1322, 1323, 1324, 1325. Gaps remain open.
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
1. Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi memuru
  1,500 kuruşCalculated age 26
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hariciye Mektubî Kalemi birinci sınıf halifesi
  Calculated age 33
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 9 recorded entries in this stage →
6
1908/09 (AH 1326)
Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi / Batumi (Batum)
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
1. Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
  Hariciye Mektubî Kalemi birinci sınıf halifesi
  Calculated age 34
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
  Hariciye Mektubî Kalemi birinci sınıf halifesi
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 34
  Entry & evidence →[1]
All 4 recorded entries in this stage →
7
1909/10 (AH 1327)
Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi / Hariciye Nezareti
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi; Hariciye Nezareti
1. Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi
  Hariciye Mektubî Kalemi birinci sınıf halifesi
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Hariciye Nezareti
  Umur-ı Siyasiye Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Daire-i Merkeziye ve Vilayet Şubesi kâtibi
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 35
  Entry & evidence →[1]
8
1910/11 (AH 1328)
Hariciye Nezareti / Savuçbulak
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Hariciye Nezareti; Savuçbulak
1. Hariciye Nezareti
  Umur-ı Siyasiye Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Daire-i Merkeziye ve Vilayet Şubesi kâtibi
  1,200 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Savuçbulak
  Savuçbulak şehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 36
  Entry & evidence →[1]
9
1911 (AH 1329)
Savuçbulak
Within-year entry order unresolved
Not yet located on the map: Savuçbulak
1. Savuçbulak şehbenderi
  2,000 kuruşCalculated age 37
  Continuing service as described
  Entry & evidence →[1]
2. Savuçbulak şehbenderi (Azil)
  Calculated age 37
  Entry & evidence →[1]

Gregorian spans accompany recorded AH years; exact dates retain their cited wording. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated only within the same recorded calendar. Missing amounts remain unrecorded; zero remains zero.

Pay over time

Pay in its time

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Relative pay percentileShare of other annual-entry officials paid less

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Amounts are nominal monthly kuruş in years with a recorded salary. Gaps are left blank; values are not adjusted for prices. Explicitly unpaid zero entries remain in the chronology and are omitted from logarithmic salary plots.

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Monthly nominal kuruş. “Paid less” is the share of other officials in the same-year annual-entry sample with lower recorded pay; N is official-year observations.
AH year	Official rate	Sample median	Sample p10 to p90	Paid less	N
1894/95 (AH 1312)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.4%	2004
1895/96 (AH 1313)	500	400	140 to 1,500	55.1%	1981
1896/97 (AH 1314)	500	450	150 to 1,575	52.8%	2119
1897/98 (AH 1315)	500	400	140 to 1,425	56.9%	1891
1898/99 (AH 1316)	500	400	144 to 1,400	55.8%	1844
1899/1900 (AH 1317)	1,500	400	140 to 1,440	90.3%	1821
1900/01 (AH 1318)	1,500	400	140 to 1,500	89.9%	1761
1901/02 (AH 1319)	1,500	400	150 to 1,520	88.8%	1666
1902/03 (AH 1320)	1,500	400	150 to 1,500	90.0%	1627
1903/04 (AH 1321)	1,500	405	150 to 1,450	90.1%	1578
1904/05 (AH 1322)	1,500	400	135 to 1,500	89.6%	1493
1905/06 (AH 1323)	1,500	430	125 to 1,500	89.7%	1423
1906/07 (AH 1324)	1,500	450	150 to 1,525	88.3%	1371
1908/09 (AH 1326)	1,200	400	150 to 2,000	80.6%	1232
1909/10 (AH 1327)	1,200	600	200 to 2,000	75.1%	1088
1910/11 (AH 1328)	2,000	500	200 to 2,000	87.4%	732
1911 (AH 1329)	2,000	600	250 to 2,500	81.5%	402

Career patterns and pay

Recorded pay over the career

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Where the career is recorded

Distinct AH years with career entries

Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi11
1899 to 1910 (AH 1317 to 1327)
Plovdiv (Filibe)6
1894 to 1900 (AH 1312 to 1317)
Hariciye Nezareti2
1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
Savuçbulak2
1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
Batumi (Batum)1
1908/09 (AH 1326)

Gaps do not count as service. One year can have entries in several places.

Amounts recorded by place

Kuruş · smallest to largest dated rate

Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi1,200 to 1,500
Plovdiv (Filibe)500
Hariciye Nezareti1,200
Savuçbulak2,000
Batumi (Batum)675

Ranges retain different rates and source assertions. Retirement amounts are separate from post pay.

Titles across the recorded years

Distinct AH years with each recorded title

Hariciye Nezareti Mektubî Kalemi memuru8
1899 to 1907 (AH 1317 to 1324)
İslam Mektebi muallim-i evveli6
1894 to 1900 (AH 1312 to 1317)
Hariciye Mektubî Kalemi birinci sınıf halifesi4
1906 to 1910 (AH 1324 to 1327)
Savuçbulak şehbenderi2
1910 to 1911 (AH 1328 to 1329)
Umur-ı Siyasiye Müdüriyet-i Umumiyesi Daire-i Merkeziye ve Vilayet Şubesi kâtibi2
1909 to 1911 (AH 1327 to 1328)
Batum başşehbender vekili1
1908/09 (AH 1326)

The most recorded title wordings. A year may include more than one title; these counts do not establish promotions or continuous tenure.

Related officials in the salary reference

Plovdiv (Filibe)4 other officialsSırrı Bey born 1871/72 (AH 1288); highest salary 1,000 kuruş
1894/95 (AH 1312)224 other officialsAhmed Hikmet Efendi first annual entry 1894/95 (AH 1312); highest salary 180 kuruş

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Education and personal record

Qualification Formal qualification recorded; Ulum ve edebiyat şahadetnamesi^[1]

Schooling Filibe Rüşdiye Mektebi; Mekteb-i Sultani^[source]

Language skills and historical terms

Kitâbet means writing; tekellüm means speaking; âşinâ means familiarity.

French · Tekellüm ve kitâbet^[source]
Turkish · Tekellüm ve kitâbet^[source]

Honours and other personal details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code): 1 (recorded code)^[source]

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Sources and evidence

II. Abdülhamid dönemi sicil dosyalarına göre şehbenderler (1876-1909)
BERİVAN SULTAN DUMAN · 2024 · Pages 206, 207, 208, 209
BOA, HR.SAİD, No. 23, Gömlek No. 18, 10-9-5-3-2.

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