Complex sentence: Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912--6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.
Split into simpler sentences: Jacques Soustelle (3 February 1912--6 August 1990) was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces and an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations. He became vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939.