Wilhelm Stief

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~prohel/genealogy/stories/Jews_in_St...

https://www.sternberk.org/stief-wilhelm-kronikar-a-historik/

https://limam.upol.cz/Authors/Detail/792 (Google translate)

• Birth 2/19/1861 Sternberg. Death 1929. Historian Wilhelm Stief was the son of the Sternberger weaver and later police guard Karl Stief. He attended the Unterrealschule in Sternberg and joined the municipality in 1881, where he worked until his retirement in 1925. In his last years of service he was the city treasury director. The administration of the city archive was one of his life tasks. In self-study, Stief acquired historical knowledge and processed the archive material into two high-quality presentations of the history of the city of Sternberg: History of the city of Sternberg (1894, 2nd expanded edition 1934, still edited by Stief) and topography of the political district of Sterneberg (1896, 2nd edition). extended edition 1928, still edited by Stief).