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Mehmed Cemal 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. 1886/87 (AH 1304)Tapu Kalemi stajyeriAntakya
    1. Tapu Kalemi stajyeri

      Antakya · Calculated age 19

      [1]

  2. 1892/93 (AH 1310)Tapu KâtibiAntakya
    1. Tapu Kâtibi

      Antakya · Calculated age 25

      [1]

  3. 1896/97 (AH 1314)Tapu Kâtibi (Azil)Antakya
    1. Tapu Kâtibi (Azil)

      Antakya · Calculated age 29

      Recorded service ending

      [1]

  4. 1907/08 (AH 1325)Tapu KâtibiAntakya · 500 kuruş
    1. Tapu Kâtibi

      Antakya · Calculated age 40 · 500 kuruş

      [1]

  5. Undated entriesaçıkta (sağlık sebebiyle) (İnfisal) · 2 career entriesAntakya
    1. açıkta (sağlık sebebiyle) (İnfisal)

      [1]

Recorded pay

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

02505001907/08AH 13251907/08 (AH 1325) · Tapu Kâtibi · Antakya · age 40 · 500 kuruş

All personal fields and their sources

Personal details

Birthplace
Antakya [source]
Birth year
1868/69 (AH 1285) [source]
Father’s occupation
Rüsumat Başkâtibi [source]

Education and languages

Arabic
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Persian
Aşina [source]
Turkish
Tekellüm ve kitâbet [source]
Education
Antakya iptidai mektebi; medrese [source]
Education level equivalent
4 [source]The coded level equivalent is not the number of years this official attended school.

First work and apprenticeship

Age at first service
19 [source]Calculated year-label differences and source-stated ages are distinguished; alternatives remain visible.
First work place
Antakya [source]
First work year
1886/87 (AH 1304) [source]
Apprenticeship
6 [source]Duration as recorded; this field alone does not date a service interval.

Other recorded details

Judicial record indicator (recorded code)
1 (recorded code) [source]The original code is retained without assigning an unverified meaning to zero.

Documentary details and source passages

These accounts retain their own wording and dates. Passages can include family, education, languages, honours and judicial narratives beyond the summary fields. A quotation is evidence from its named account; it does not settle differences between sources.

Documentary sources

  1. Sicill-i Ahval Defterlerine göre Antakyalı devlet memurları, 1879 - 1909

    NAZİR ÇETİN · 2015 · Pages 174, 175

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