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Mehmed Tevfik Efendi

Complete career chronology

Life and career

Appointments and amounts remain attached to their sources. Stated ages are labelled; other ages are calculated from AH year labels. Entries in one year can describe different appointments or rates; gaps remain open.

  1. 1882/83 (AH 1300)kitâbetMekke-i mükerreme · 250 kuruş
    1. kitâbet

      Mekke-i mükerreme · Calculated age 34 · 250 kuruş

      [1]

  2. 1883/84 (AH 1301)kitâbetMekke-i mükerreme · 250 kuruş
    1. kitâbet

      Mekke-i mükerreme · Calculated age 35 · 250 kuruş

      [1]

  3. 1884/85 (AH 1302)kitâbetMekke-i mükerreme · 250 kuruş
    1. kitâbet

      Mekke-i mükerreme · Calculated age 36 · 250 kuruş

      [1]

  4. 1885/86 (AH 1303)kitâbet · 2 career entriesMekke-i mükerreme · Hicaz · 250; 500 kuruş
    1. kitâbet

      Mekke-i mükerreme · Calculated age 37 · 250 kuruş

      [1]

    2. sanduk kitâbeti

      Hicaz · Calculated age 37 · 500 kuruş

      [1]

Recorded pay

Kuruş · dated amounts. Green: post entries. Purple: retirement. Grey: other career status.

02505001882/83AH 13001885/86AH 13031882/83 (AH 1300) · kitâbet · Mekke-i mükerreme · age 34 · 250 kuruş1883/84 (AH 1301) · kitâbet · Mekke-i mükerreme · age 35 · 250 kuruş1884/85 (AH 1302) · kitâbet · Mekke-i mükerreme · age 36 · 250 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · kitâbet · Mekke-i mükerreme · age 37 · 250 kuruş1885/86 (AH 1303) · sanduk kitâbeti · Hicaz · age 37 · 500 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Bursa [source]
Birth province
Hüdavendigâr [source]
Birth year
1849/50 (AH 1266) [source]
Religion
İslam [source]
Archive references
34/84; 165 [1]

Education and languages

Arabic
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Persian
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Turkish
Kitâbet [source]okur yazar [1]
Education
Sıbyan mektebi; Bursa mekteb-i rüşdiyesi [source]
Education level equivalent
7 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
34 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Mekke-i mükerreme [source]
First-salary field
250 kuruş (personal first-salary field) [source]A personal first-salary field does not by itself establish the pay of a particular career event.
First work year
1882/83 (AH 1300) [source]

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahval defterlerine göre Bursalı memurlar

    DERVİŞ ŞAFAK TOPRAK · 2019 · Pages 310,311

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