Definitions for "Austerlitz"
a decisive battle during the Napoleonic campaigns (1805); the French under Napoleon defeated the Russian and Austrian armies of Czar Alexander I and Emperor Francis II.
Parisian railroad station for eastbound trains. Austerlitz was the name of a Czech city.
a town in Czech Republic; site of the Battle of Austerlitz in 1805
Austerlitz is the name of a Jewish family. As is the case with all names derived from places, the surname "Austerlitz" does not necessarily signify that all the persons so named belong to one family. It denotes that an ancestor of the person came from that place or was for some time a resident there.