Complex sentence: Born in Hasle, Denmark, where his father was district attorney, he took the classical languages exam at Sorø Akademi in 1928, then going on to study comparative literature at Copenhagen University, then at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Grenoble.
Split into simpler sentences: Born in Hasle, Denmark, where his father was district attorney, he took the classical languages exam at Sorø Akademi in 1928. He went on to study comparative literature at Copenhagen University, at the Sorbonne in Paris, and in Grenoble.