Complex sentence: He was born in Alfeld, near Hildesheim; was a teacher at Leipzig (1520); served as a guardian for noble minors in Halle (1524); and was provincial for the Franciscan order in Saxony (1529-1532).
Split into simpler sentences: He was born in Alfeld, near Hildesheim and was a teacher at Leipzig in 1520. He served as a guardian for noble minors in (1524); and was provincial for the Franciscan order in Saxony (1529-1532).