Complex sentence: Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu, he was deported to the Gulag by Soviet authorities (in 1945), and returned to Romania in 1949, training in German studies at the University of Bucharest.
Split into simpler sentences: Born into a Transylvanian Saxon family in Sibiu, he was deported in 1945 to the Gulag by Soviet authorities. He returned to Romania in 1949, training in German studies at the University of Bucharest.