Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An haifi Stahel a Szeged, Masarautar Hungary, kilomita 200 kudu maso gabashin Budapest. Bayan ya yi karatu a Szeged da Budapest, ya shiga rundunar sojojin Austriya, inda ya kai matsayin laftanar. Stahel ya shiga cikin yunkurin neman 'yancin kai na Hungary wanda Lajos Kossuth ya jagoranta a lokacin Juyin Juya Halin 1848
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya yi aiki a kan ma'aikatan Janar Artúr Görgey da Janar Richard Debaufre Guyon. Sa'ad da aka dakatar da tawayen Hungary da aka yi wa daular Habsburg a shekara ta 1849, ya gudu zuwa Prussia kuma daga baya zuwa Ingila kafin ya ƙaura zuwa Amirka a shekara ta 1859. Har zuwa barkewar Yaƙin Basasa na Amurka, ya yi aiki da "Deutsche illustrirte Familienblätter", jaridar yaren Jamusanci a Birnin New York.