Question: Facts: - commands: 7th land rifle regiment 44th home guard infantry division vi . infantry royal military district 42nd home guard infantry division division xii corps 5th infantry brigade 88th - predecessor: oskar potiorek - birth date: 04 october 1858 - branch: austro-hungarian army - profession: soldier - order: 9th - death date: 16 october 1939 - office: governor of bosnia and herzegovina - term end: 3 november 1918 - awards: order of the iron crown order of leopold - serviceyears: 1884 -- 1918 - unit: koniggratz department of general staff regiment 16th infantry regiment 1st mountain brigade intelligence - name: stjepan sarkotic - death place: vienna , nazi germany - birth place: sinac , otocac , austrian empire - successor: office people 's government of bosnia and herzegovina -rrb- abolished -lrb- atanasije Sola as president of the - restingplace: zentralfriedhof , simmering , vienna , austria - committees: croatian committee - nationality: croat - alma mater: theresian military academy - battles: world war i - allegiance: austria-hungary - term start: 22 december 1914 - appointed: franz joseph i of austria - image: sarkotic.jpg - rank: lieutenant colonel general Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of stjepan sarkotic .
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stjepan freiherr sarkotic von lovcen -lrb- also '' stefan sarkotic '' , '' stjepan sarkotic '' , or '' stephan sarkotic '' ; 4 october 1858 -- 16 october 1939 -rrb- was an austro-hungarian army general of croatian ethnicity who served as governor of bosnia and herzegovina during world war i.