Complex sentence: Maurice Bloomfield, Ph. D., LL.D. February 23 1855-June 12 1928, American philologist and Sanskrit scholar, was born on 23 February 1855, in Bielitz, in what was at that time Austrian Silesia (today it is in Poland).
Split into simpler sentences: Maurice Bloomfield, Ph. D., LL.D. (February 23 1855-June 12 1928) was an American philologist and Sanskrit scholar. Bloomfield was born in Bielitz, in what was at that time Austrian Silesia (today it is in Poland).