Official
Mehmet Rifat Efendi
Muslim (Müslüman). Born in Baghdad (Bağdat) in 1867/68 (AH 1284). On record 1883 to 1900, 4 annual entries.
Archive reference 114_193; 381
Life#
Mehmet Rifat Efendi was born in Baghdad (Bağdat) in 1867/68 (AH 1284). The record gives the community as Muslim (Müslüman), the nationality as Turkish and the father's occupation as Binbasi.
Schooling recorded: Rüşdiye Mektebi, with 7 years of schooling recorded, at a place worded Bagdat. The record marks no qualification (diploma, certificate, training or decoration). Languages recorded, with the skill words of the record: Arabic, with Kitabet; Turkish, with Kitabet.
First work is recorded in Beirut (Beyrut) in 1883/84 (AH 1301): Rusumat Kalemi. The official was then about 16 years old. The record gives no years of unpaid apprenticeship (mülazemet). The first-salary field gives 150 kuruş a month. At the first annual entry, in 1883/84, the official was about 16 years old.
The first annual entry, for 1883/84, shows Kolcu in Beirut, with 150 kuruş a month. In 1885/86 the record shows Kolcu in Acre (Akka), with 150 kuruş a month (before: Kolcu in Beirut). In 1898/99 the record shows Posta Memuru in Zor, the salary going from 150 to 300 kuruş a month (before: Kolcu in Acre). In 1899/1900 the record shows Posta Memuru in Aleppo (Halep), with 300 kuruş a month (before: Posta Memuru in Zor). No annual entry is recorded for 1884/85 and 1886 to 1898.
The highest salary, 300 kuruş a month, is first recorded in 1898/99 as Posta Memuru. 19 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less. The median salary of all officials that year was 500 kuruş. Over 4 years with a salary the median is 225 kuruş a month, with 1 rise and no cuts. The largest rise, 150 kuruş, is seen in 1898/99. From the first salary to the last the salary grew by 4.43 per cent a year on average. The last salary is recorded in 1899/1900, when 18 per cent of the other officials with a recorded salary that year earned less.
Record#
Personal
- Born
- 1867/68 (AH 1284)
- Birthplace
- Baghdad (Bağdat)
- Community
- Muslim (Müslüman)
- Nationality as recorded
- Turkish
- Father's occupation
- Binbasi
Education
- Rüşdiye
- Rüşdiye Mektebi (7 years)rüşdiye school (middle school); place of the school as worded: Bagdat
- Unpaid years (mülazemet)
- 0 years
- Preparation route (classification of the paper)
- Low
- Qualification (diploma, certificate, training or nişan)
- No
The years count all schooling up to that school, as the record gives them.
Languages
- Arabic
- Kitabetwriting
- Turkish
- Kitabetwriting
The glosses are cautious historical readings of the recorded words, not modern levels of proficiency.
First work
- Year
- 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Place
- Beirut (Beyrut)
- First job as worded
- Rusumat Kalemi
- Age at first work (workbook field)
- 17
- First salary field (kuruş a month)
- 150
- First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month)
- 150
Legal records
- Judicial record (recorded code)
- 1
- Legal record note as worded
- Fesat / arkadaşları aleyhinde bir takım tezviratta bulunduğu sermüfettişlik tarafından icra olunan tahkikattan anlaşılmakla idareten azledilmiş; Fesat / memurin ile ahali beynine nifak ilka ve Telgraf Memuriyeti’ni yekdiğeri aleyhine teşvik ile icra-yı fesad ettiği ve bu yüzden merkezi lisana düşürerek selb-i emniyete sebebiyet verdiği ve arkadaşları aleyhinde bir takım tüccar namı altında evrak-ı iştikaiye tertip ve tasni etmesi cihetiyle merkez-i mezkurdan kaldırılmasına lüzum görüldüğüne bin üç yüz on yedi senesi şehr-i Rebiülahirinin on dördünde 9 Ağustos sene 1317 maaşıyla Halep Vilayeti; Fesat
- Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records
- 1316
Career#
| Years | Title | Place | Salary (kuruş a month) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Rusumat Kalemifirst work | Beirut (Beyrut) | 150first-salary field |
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Kolcu | Beirut (Beyrut) | 150 |
| No annual entry: 1884/85 (AH 1302) | |||
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Kolcu | Acre (Akka) | 150 |
| No annual entry: 1886 to 1898 (AH 1304 to 1315) | |||
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Posta Memuru | Zor | 300 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Posta Memuru | Aleppo (Halep) | 300 |
Log scale: equal steps are equal ratios. The median of the same title is drawn for the years in which at least 5 officials with that title had a salary.
The numbers of the chart
| Year | Salary | Median, all officials | Median, same title | Paid less |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84 | 150 | 500 | 2% | |
| 1885/86 | 150 | 500 | 1% | |
| 1898/99 | 300 | 500 | 387.5 | 19% |
| 1899/1900 | 300 | 500 | 400 | 18% |
Paid less: the share of the other officials with a salary that year who earned less.
Choose a row to mark its years in the charts and its place on the map.
Recorded with#
Recorded in the same place in the same years
- Ramiz EfendiAleppo (Halep) and 1 other place, 2 shared years
- Abdülkerim EfendiAleppo (Halep), 1 shared year
- Şevket Makri EfendiAleppo (Halep), 1 shared year
- Mahmut EfendiAleppo (Halep), 1 shared year
- Abdülkadir Zihni EfendiAleppo (Halep), 1 shared year
50 officials in all. Officials recorded in Beirut (Beyrut)
Same school recorded
- Abdullah Sıtkı EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ahmet Lütfi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ahmet Refik EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ali Rıza EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
- Ali Ulvi EfendiRüşdiye Mektebi, first annual entry 1883/84 (AH 1301)
3,199 officials in all. Officials with Rüşdiye Mektebi recorded
Same birthplace
- Mehmet Tevfik EfendiBaghdad (Bağdat), born 1867/68 (AH 1284)
- Abdülmuttalip Muhlis EfendiBaghdad (Bağdat), born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Abdürrezzak EfendiBaghdad (Bağdat), born 1866/67 (AH 1283)
- Mahmut Hamdi EfendiBaghdad (Bağdat), born 1865/66 (AH 1282)
- Setran EfendiBaghdad (Bağdat), born 1869/70 (AH 1286)
72 officials in all. Officials born in Baghdad (Bağdat)
Full record
Annual entries (4)
| Year | Title | Place | Kuruş a month | Institution | Source | Archive reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1883/84AH 1301 | Kolcu | Beirut (Beyrut) | 150 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 114_193; 381 |
| 1885/86AH 1303 | Kolcu | Acre (Akka) | 150 | Other | Cross-ministry personnel workbook | 114_193; 381 |
| 1898/99AH 1316 | Posta Memuru | Zor | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 114_193; 381 |
| 1899/1900AH 1317 | Posta Memuru | Aleppo (Halep) | 300 | Post and Telegraph (Posta ve Telgraf) | Recovered annual personnel extract | 114_193; 381 |
What the sources named in this table are
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
Sources and original values (29)
| Field | Recorded value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Identity | ||
| Name | Mehmet Rifat Efendi | Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| Birth year (AH) | 1284 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace | bagdat | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: district (kaza) | Bagdat | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: sancak | Bagdat | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Birthplace: province (vilayet) | Bagdat | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Province of birth | bagdat | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| Father's occupation | binbasi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Religion | Musluman | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Nationality or community | Turkish | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Schooling | ||
| School | Rusdiye Mektebi | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Place of the school | Bagdat | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of schooling | 7 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Years of apprenticeship (mülazemet) | 0 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work | ||
| First work: year (AH) | 1301 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Linked personnel workbook |
| First work: Gregorian year as stored | 1884 | Recovered annual personnel extract |
| First work: place | beyrut | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: district (kaza) | beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: sancak | beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First work: province (vilayet) | beyrut | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First job as worded | Rusumat Kalemi | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Age at first work (workbook field) | 17 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| First salary field (kuruş a month) | 150 | Recovered annual personnel extract; Personnel attributes extract; Earlier annual personnel extract |
| First-job salary of the original workbook (kuruş a month) | 150 | Linked personnel workbook; Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Legal records | ||
| Judicial record (recorded code) | 1 | Cross-ministry personnel workbook |
| Legal record note as worded | Fesat / arkadaşları aleyhinde bir takım tezviratta bulunduğu sermüfettişlik tarafından icra olunan tahkikattan anlaşılmakla idareten azledilmiş used on this page | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Fesat / memurin ile ahali beynine nifak ilka ve Telgraf Memuriyeti’ni yekdiğeri aleyhine teşvik ile icra-yı fesad ettiği ve bu yüzden merkezi lisana düşürerek selb-i emniyete sebebiyet verdiği ve arkadaşları aleyhinde bir takım tüccar namı altında evrak-ı iştikaiye tertip ve tasni etmesi cihetiyle merkez-i mezkurdan kaldırılmasına lüzum görüldüğüne bin üç yüz on yedi senesi şehr-i Rebiülahirinin on dördünde 9 Ağustos sene 1317 maaşıyla Halep Vilayeti other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Legal record note as worded | Fesat other value | Legal notes (earlier workbook copy); Legal notes (later workbook copy) |
| Years (AH) with a criminal-record mark in the annual records | 1316 | Later annual personnel extract |
What the sources named in this table are
- Legal notes (earlier workbook copy)
- A workbook of notes on legal records. The wording is kept as written. It may hold an accusation or an acquittal, it is not the finding of a court, and its year is the year of the record, not the date of an event.
- Legal notes (later workbook copy)
- A later copy of the workbook of notes on legal records. The same wording in both copies is one note, not two.
- Cross-ministry personnel workbook
- A personnel workbook with the annual entries in institutions other than the Post and Telegraph (justice, land registry, customs, police and others), with the same annual fields as the personnel workbook.
- Later annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2025. It marks single annual entries with a criminal-record flag and holds status words such as Vefat. For a death, the year is the year of the annual list in which the status word stands.
- Earlier annual personnel extract
- The detailed annual personnel file of October 2024. An official found only in this file keeps the years, titles and salaries it gives.
- Recovered annual personnel extract
- The merged annual personnel file recovered for the replication of the first paper. Annual entries are taken from it for every official it holds.
- Personnel attributes extract
- The detailed personnel file of September 2025, read for personal details such as birth, schooling and first work.
- Linked personnel workbook
- The original personnel workbook, from which selected fields on background and first work are taken.
- The sources give more than one value for a marked field. Every value is listed.
- Origin of the record: Post and Telegraph personnel records.
- 2 annual entries of 4 belong to the saved estimation sample of the paper.
How to read this record: calendar years, years without an annual entry, salaries and sources.