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: königgrätz department of general staff regiment 16th infantry regiment 1st mountain brigade intelligence    - name: stjepan sarkotić    - death place: vienna , nazi germany    - birth place: sinac , otočac , austrian empire    - successor: office people 's government of bosnia and herzegovina -rrb- abolished -lrb- atanasije Šola 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 sarkotić .
stjepan freiherr sarkotić von lovćen -lrb- also `` stefan sarkotić '' , `` stjepan sarkotić '' , or `` stephan sarkotić '' ; 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.