author
Paul Stiel
b. 1882
A little-known early 20th-century German legal writer, he focused on piracy and maritime law at a moment when international law was taking modern shape. His surviving works are dense, serious studies that trace how piracy was defined in law and practice.
2 Audiobooks
Der Tatbestand der Piraterie nach geltendem Völkerrecht
by Paul Stiel
Die Piraterie. Beiträge zum internationalen Seerecht
by Paul Stiel
About the author
Paul Stiel was a German author identified in library and catalog records as born in 1882. The clearest surviving traces of his career come through his legal writings rather than through detailed biographical accounts, and the available public sources do not seem to preserve much more about his personal life.
His best-known work is Die Piraterie. Beiträge zum internationalen Seerecht, described by Project Gutenberg as an inaugural dissertation for a doctorate. Another recorded title, Der Tatbestand der Piraterie nach geltendem Völkerrecht unter vergleichender Berücksichtigung der Landesetzgebungen (1905), shows the same core interest: the history and legal meaning of piracy under international law, compared with national legislation.
That makes Stiel an interesting figure for readers of legal history. Even with so little biographical detail available, his books offer a window into how scholars in the early 1900s thought about war at sea, international order, and the changing definition of piracy.