Complex sentence: Eckart initially studied law at Erlangen, later medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and was an eager fencing and drinking corps member, but he finally decided in 1891 to work as a poet, playwright and journalist.
Split into simpler sentences: Eckart initially studied law at Erlangen, later medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, and was an eager member of the fencing and drinking Korps. But he finally decided in 1891 to work as a poet, playwright, and journalist.