Complex sentence: Bomberger had proposed naming the college after Zacharias Ursinus, a 16th-century German theologian and an important figure in the Protestant Reformation, in order to declare the Reformed orthodoxy of the College.
Split into simpler sentences: Bomberger had proposed naming the college after Zacharias Ursinus, a 16th-century German theologian. He was also an important figure in the Protestant Reformation, in order to declare the Reformed orthodoxy of the College.