Complex sentence: He received his doctorate at Uppsala in 1884 with his thesis "Nordische Lehnwörter im Orrmulum" on Scandinavian loanwords in the twelfth-century Middle English work "Ormulum", and in the same year was appointed an associate professor of ancient Germanic languages.
Split into simpler sentences: He received his doctorate at Uppsala in 1884 with his thesis "Nordische Lehnwörter im Orrmulum", which described the use of Scandinavian loanwords in the twelfth-century Middle English work "Ormulum". Brate in that same year was appointed an associate professor of ancient Germanic languages.