Complex sentence: At first a page at the ducal court of Saxe-Weissenfels, he next studied law and theology at Jena and Halle; but ill health prevented his preferment he settled at Glancha in Silesia, where he founded an orphanage.
Split into simpler sentences: At first a page at the ducal court of Saxe-Weissenfels, he next studied law and theology at Jena and Halle; but ill health prevented his preferment. He settled at Glancha in Silesia, where he founded an orphanage.