Complex sentence: Petzval was born in Zipser Bela, Kingdom of Hungary within the Austrian Empire (today Spišská Belá, Slovakia) as the son of a German schoolteacher.
Split into simpler sentences: Petzval was born in Zipser Bela, Kingdom of Hungary within the Austrian Empire (today Spišská Belá, Slovakia). Although born in Kingdom of Hungary, Petzval was the son of German schoolteacher.