School
Patrikhane Kilisesi Mektebi
Group of schools: Community school
Stored spellings: Patrikhane kilisesi mektebi; patrikhane kilisesi mektebi
1 official has Patrikhane Kilisesi Mektebi recorded as school. The annual entries of this official, 8 in all, run from 1876 to 1883 (AH 1293 to 1300). The median of the 8 recorded monthly salaries is 900 kuruş, against 530 kuruş for the whole collection in the same years.
- Officials
- 1
- Years on recordAH 1293 to 1300, 8 years with an entry
- 1876 to 1883
- Median monthly salaryfrom 8 recorded salaries
- 900 kuruş
- Places with officials
- 1
Profile of the group: Community school
No source read describes Patrikhane Kilisesi Mektebi by itself, so this is the profile of its group of schools.
Schools of the religious communities (millet) of the empire. A millet was a community defined by religion and church, not by language or descent.
What was taught
- French. In the first decades of the telegraph, Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Levantines were more likely than Turks to have learned French at school
History
Young non-Muslim graduates who sat the final examinations of their schools were picked by senior Ottoman officials for the telegraph offices.
Sources
- Davison, Roderic H. (1990). The advent of the electric telegraph in the Ottoman Empire. In Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923, 133-165. Austin: University of Texas Press. Read in the Turkish translation by Durdu Mehmet Burak, OTAM 14 (2003), 347-386; pages are those of the translation.Pages or part: 377. Used for: what was taught.
- Kırmızı, Abdulhamit (2022). Identitäten quantifizieren. Nichtmuslime in der spätosmanischen Beamtenschaft. BIOS 35 (1), 31-48. Online copy (read 11 October 2026).Pages or part: 46. Used for: history.
- Ortaylı, İlber (2020). Millet (Osmanlılar'da millet sistemi). TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, vol. 30, 66-70. Online copy (read 14 October 2026).Pages or part: 66-70. Used for: summary.
Schooling, first pay and careers
What the records say about the 1 official with this school.
- Years of schooling recorded
- 4.0 yearsmean 4.0; 1 official with years; all schooling up to this school, not the years spent in it
The records give no place for this school.
Places
| Place | Province | Officials | Annual entries | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Istanbul (Dersaadet) | Istanbul (Dersaadet) province | 1 | 8 | 1876 to 1883 |
Ottoman officials recorded
| Official | Years | Annual entries | Main title | Kuruş a month | Birthplace |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karabet Efendi | 1876 to 1883 | 8 | Muayene Memuru | 800 to 1,000 | Istanbul (Dersaadet) |
How to read these records: years and calendars, what first recorded means, gaps between annual entries, and salaries.
Subjects
- Patrikhane Kilisesi Mektebi
- Ottoman education (Osmanlı eğitim tarihi)
- Ottoman schools (Osmanlı mektepleri)
- Ottoman history (Osmanlı tarihi)
- Ottoman bureaucracy (Osmanlı bürokrasisi)
- Ottoman officials (Osmanlı'da memurlar)
- Ottoman personnel registers (Sicill-i Ahvâl defterleri)
- Ottoman registers (Osmanlı defterleri)