Complex sentence: He was educated principally at the University of Göttingen as a student of Johann Eduard Wappäus and Karl von Seebach, and approached the subject of geography at first through the study of classics and history.
Split into simpler sentences: He was educated principally at the University of Göttingen, where he was a student of Johann Eduard Wappäus and Karl von Seebach. He approached the subject of geography at first through the study of classics and history.