Karl von Stutterheim

Born in 1774 and dying in 1811, Karl von Stutterheim is remembered today less as a public literary figure than as a soldier-writer whose name survives through his account of the Napoleonic era. Project Gutenberg identifies him as the author of A Detailed Account of the Battle of Austerlitz, originally published in 1807.

That book stands out because it presents the famous 1805 battle from an Austrian perspective and appears to draw on firsthand observation as well as military research. Rather than treating war as pure heroics, the work is framed as a careful attempt to explain how the battle unfolded and why the allied forces failed.

Information about his life is limited in the sources I could confirm, but the surviving work gives him a distinct place in military history: not only as a participant in the age of Napoleon, but as an early chronicler trying to make sense of one of its defining defeats.