Complex sentence: Meyer was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Vienna, Zürich and Berlin was director of the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Dresden from 1874 until his retirement in 1905.
Split into simpler sentences: Meyer was educated at the universities of Göttingen, Vienna, Zürich and Berlin. He became director of the Anthropological and Ethnographic Museum in Dresden in 1874 and continued in that position until his retirement in 1905.