August Wolfstieg (21 June 1859, Wolfenbüttel — 27 May 1922, Wolfenbüttel) was a German Geheimrat, chief librarian of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, and Freemasonry researcher.^[1]

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In 1899, he was admitted in the Masonic Lodge Pythagoras zum flammenden Stern (Pythagoras to the Flaming Star) in Berlin.^[2][3]

He was also Reich Commissioner for Books and Libraries at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 and at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in 1904.^[4]

• Bibliographie der freimaurerischen Literatur (3 vols, 1 supplement; 1911-1926)
• Ursprung und Entwicklung der Freimaurerei (3 vols; 1920)
• Das Baugewerbe in England und die Brüderschaft der Steinmetze (1920)
• Die geistigen, sittlichen und ästhetischen Werte der Freimaurerei (1922)
• Freimaurerische Arbeit und Symbolik (1922)

• Eugen Lennhoff, Oskar Posner, Dieter A. Binder: Internationales Freimaurerlexikon. 5. Herbig Verlag 2006, ISBN 978-3-7766-2478-6.
• Roger Reckewell: "Wolfstieg, August Louis Ferdinand, Prof. Dr." In: Horst-Rüdiger Jarck, Günter Scheel (eds.): Braunschweigisches Biographisches Lexikon – 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1996, ISBN 3-7752-5838-8, pp. 668–669.