Mehmet Şerif Efendi
Mehmet Şerif Efendi was born in Nablus in AH 1300. Recorded schooling includes 9 years at idadi Mektebi. First work is recorded in Nablus in AH 1321 (21 AH years after the recorded birth year). The surviving career record covers 2 distinct AH years between 1322 and 1323; it begins with Posta Memuru in Kudus (300 kuruş monthly). Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti appears later, in AH 1323 (340 kuruş monthly). Recorded language competency: Turkish: Kitabet (writing); Arabic: Kitabet (writing); French: Kitabet (writing).
Life and career
2 recorded AH years · 2 annual entries
Life and career stages
Recorded AH years- AH 1300
- AH 1321Birth-year difference: 21 AH years
- AH 1322Birth-year difference: 22 AH years
- AH 1323Birth-year difference: 23 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 · AHPosta Memuru · kudus · 300 kuruş monthly
First work is separately recorded at AH 1321 in Nablus. The first-salary field is 300 kuruş; it is not a dated point on this curve.
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
◆ 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.
Compare all recorded title, place and salary changes
Each comparison uses the preceding surviving entry.
Title Posta Memuru → Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti
Locality kudus → gazze
Salary 300 to 340 kuruş +40 (+13.33%)
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.
Preparation
- School / programme
- idadi Mektebi
- Schooling duration
- 9 source-recorded years
- Apprenticeship
- 1 source-recorded year
- Qualification indicator
- 1
- Telegraph school indicator
- 0
- Father’s occupation
- Esnaf
- 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 1321 · 1903 label
- Place
- Nablus
- First-salary field
- 300 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
3 fields contain historical terms.
- Turkish
- Kitabet (writing)
- Arabic
- Kitabet (writing)
- French
- 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)
- FL Communication and Telegraph
- Postal Service
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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| Recorded field | Original value | Source locator |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | FL Communication and Telegraph | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 28499 Recorded source-year values: 1323 |
| Occupation category (September 2025 detailed personnel edition)Recorded source wording | Postal Service | september-occupation · occupation_cat source lines 28500 Recorded source-year values: 1322 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 29211 Recorded source-year values: 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Posta Memuru | eda-memur · currentjob source lines 29210 Recorded source-year values: 1322 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Muhaberati Ecnebiye Memuriyeti | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 29211 Recorded source-year values: 1323 |
| Current job titles in older EDA annual recordsRecorded source wording | Posta Memuru | eda-memureski · currentjob source lines 29210 Recorded source-year values: 1322 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 60796 |
| Any criminal record (1=yes)Source-year indicator; not a lifetime verdict | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 62734 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 29210 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 29211 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 29210 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memur · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 29211 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 29210 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 29211 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 29210 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | eda-memureski · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 29211 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1322 · AH source lines 60796 |
| Criminal record (coded level)Unverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | october10-personnel · criminal_record_times AH 1323 · AH source lines 62734 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1322 · AH source lines 28500 |
| adlisicilkaydiUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · adlisicilkaydi AH 1323 · AH source lines 28499 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1322 · AH source lines 28500 |
| criminalUnverified code labels / original source assertion | 0 | september-occupation · criminal AH 1323 · AH source lines 28499 |
Read the complete annual source table
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904 | Posta MemuruOriginal: posta memuru | kudus | 300 | recovered line 26594 | |
| 1905 | Muhaberati Ecnebiye MemuriyetiOriginal: muhaberati ecnebiye memuriyeti | gazze | 340 | recovered line 26595 |
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
- Included · 2 annual entries
- Other archival labels
- No different label recorded
- Geography
- Recorded place assertions; map linkage is separately reported
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 (84)
| Field | Original stored value | Source field and lines |
|---|---|---|
| birthH | 1300 | recovered · dobirth source lines 26594, 26595 |
| birthPlace | nablus | recovered · birthplace source lines 26594, 26595 |
| birthPlace | nablus | recovered · birth_place source lines 26594, 26595 |
| birthProvince | beyrut | recovered · birth_vilayet source lines 26594, 26595 |
| school | idadi Mektebi | recovered · school_type source lines 26594, 26595 |
| schoolingYears | 9 | recovered · education_year source lines 26594, 26595 |
| schoolingYears | 9 | recovered · school_year source lines 26594, 26595 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | recovered · mulazemet source lines 26594, 26595 |
| qualification | 1 | recovered · qualification source lines 26594, 26595 |
| derivedQualificationFlag | 1 | recovered · has_qualification source lines 26594, 26595 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | recovered · telgraf source lines 26594, 26595 |
| religion | Musluman | recovered · religion source lines 26594, 26595 |
| nationality | Turkish | recovered · nationality source lines 26594, 26595 |
| fatherJob | Esnaf | recovered · fatherjob source lines 26594, 26595 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | recovered · father_job source lines 26594, 26595 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | recovered · ilk_ise_baslangic_yili source lines 26594, 26595 |
| firstWorkG | 1903 | recovered · firstjobyear source lines 26594, 26595 |
| firstWorkPlace | Nablus | recovered · firstjob_place source lines 26594, 26595 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | recovered · firstjob_wage source lines 26594, 26595 |
| birthLatitude | 32.22242400000004 | recovered · lat_birth_place source lines 26594, 26595 |
| birthLongitude | 35.26022599999997 | recovered · lon_birth_place source lines 26594, 26595 |
| name | Mehmet Şerif Efendi | september · İsim source lines 28499, 28500 |
| birthH | 1300 | september · dobirth source lines 28499, 28500 |
| birthPlace | nablus | september · birthplace source lines 28499, 28500 |
| birthProvince | beyrut | september · birth_vilayet source lines 28499, 28500 |
| school | idadi mektebi | september · school_type source lines 28499, 28500 |
| schoolingYears | 9 | september · education_year source lines 28499, 28500 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · mulazemet source lines 28499, 28500 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | september · MülazemetSüresi source lines 28499, 28500 |
| qualification | 1 | september · qualification source lines 28499, 28500 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | september · telegraph_school source lines 28499, 28500 |
| religion | musluman | september · religion source lines 28499, 28500 |
| nationality | turkish | september · nationality source lines 28499, 28500 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | september · fatherjob source lines 28499, 28500 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | september · firstjob_year source lines 28499, 28500 |
| firstWorkPlace | nablus | september · firstjob_place source lines 28499, 28500 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | september · firstjob_wage source lines 28499, 28500 |
| birthLatitude | 32.22242400000004 | september · lat_birth_place source lines 28499, 28500 |
| birthLongitude | 35.26022599999997 | september · lon_birth_place source lines 28499, 28500 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | september · lang_turkish source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | september · lang_turkish2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| language:Arabic | Kitabet | september · lang_arabic source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 2 | september · lang_arabic2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| language:French | Kitabet | september · lang_french source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | september · lang_french2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | september · lang_persian2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | september · lang_english2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | september · lang_italian2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | september · lang_armenian2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | september · lang_greek2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | september · lang_rum2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | september · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | september · lang_russian2 source lines 28499, 28500 |
| name | Mehmet Şerif Efendi | older · İsim source lines 55044, 55054 |
| birthH | 1300 | older · dobirth source lines 55044, 55054 |
| birthPlace | nablus | older · birthplace source lines 55044, 55054 |
| birthProvince | beyrut | older · birth_vilayet source lines 55044, 55054 |
| school | idadi mektebi | older · school_type source lines 55044, 55054 |
| schoolingYears | 9 | older · education_year source lines 55044, 55054 |
| apprenticeshipYears | 1 | older · MülazemetSüresi source lines 55044, 55054 |
| qualification | 1 | older · qualification source lines 55044, 55054 |
| telegraphSchool | 0 | older · telgraph_school source lines 55044, 55054 |
| religion | musluman | older · religion source lines 55044, 55054 |
| nationality | turkish | older · nationality source lines 55044, 55054 |
| fatherJob | esnaf | older · fatherjob source lines 55044, 55054 |
| firstWorkH | 1321 | older · firstjob_year source lines 55044, 55054 |
| firstWorkPlace | nablus | older · firstjob_place source lines 55044, 55054 |
| firstWorkSalary | 300 | older · firstjob_wage source lines 55044, 55054 |
| birthLatitude | 32.22242400000004 | older · lat_birth_place source lines 55044, 55054 |
| birthLongitude | 35.26022599999997 | older · lon_birth_place source lines 55044, 55054 |
| language:Turkish | Kitabet | older · lang_turkish source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Turkish | 3 | older · lang_turkish2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| language:Arabic | Kitabet | older · lang_arabic source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Arabic | 2 | older · lang_arabic2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| language:French | Kitabet | older · lang_french source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:French | 2 | older · lang_french2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Persian | 0 | older · lang_persian2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:English | 0 | older · lang_english2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Italian | 0 | older · lang_italian2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Armenian | 0 | older · lang_armenian2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Greek | 0 | older · lang_greek2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Rum | 0 | older · lang_rum2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Bulgarian | 0 | older · lang_bulgarian2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
| derivedLanguageCode:Russian | 0 | older · lang_russian2 source lines 55044, 55054 |
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 Şerif Efendi”, archival reference 0157_0175; 345, edition ottoman-bureaucracy-2026-10-11-v1-84d4f7f2230a, https://ottomanbureaucracy.com/people/p-f78ce70034d5a61d/.
Stable archival identity: /people/p-f78ce70034d5a61d/. The edition identifies the data build separately from the stable person address. Historical records may be revised in a later edition.