Complex sentence: Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904 and 1905, and was translated into English for the first time by Talcott Parsons in 1930.
Split into simpler sentences: Begun as a series of essays, the original German text was composed in 1904 and 1905. It was translated into English for the first time by Talcott Parsons and appeared in 1930.