Paul Stiel

Published sources available here point to a German jurist and writer active in the early 1900s. Paul Stiel is credited as the author of Die Piraterie. Beiträge zum internationalen Seerecht, a work later preserved by Project Gutenberg.

The text identifies itself as an inaugural dissertation submitted to the law faculty of the Royal Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin and publicly defended on August 4, 1905. In that publication, Stiel is described as a Referendar in Berlin, suggesting he was working within the German legal training system while writing on piracy and international maritime law.

Little biographical information beyond his authorship and academic legal background could be confirmed from the material found during this search, so this portrait remains necessarily brief. Even so, his work stands out for connecting a subject with obvious adventure-story appeal to serious legal and historical analysis.