Complex sentence: Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph.D (1873--1939) American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer born Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 9,1873.
Split into simpler sentences: Hartley Burr Alexander, Ph.D (1873--1939), was an American philosopher, writer, educator, scholar, poet, and iconographer. Alexander was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, on April 9,1873.