Complex sentence: Jean-Frédéric Osterwald (or Ostervald) (25 November 1663--April 14,1747), Swiss Protestant pastor, was born at Neuchâtel in 1663 in a patrician family, a son of the Reformed pastor Johann Rudolf Ostervald.
Split into simpler sentences: Jean-Frédéric Osterwald (or Ostervald) (25 November 1663--April 14,1747) was a Swiss Protestant pastor. He was born at Neuchâtel in 1663 in a patrician family, a son of the Reformed pastor Johann Rudolf Ostervald.