Complex sentence: Michel Tardieu (1938 -), a French scholar working on religious currents in Late Antiquity and in the Near and Far East, was born in Burgundy and educated in a petit seminaire and with the Dominicans in Toulouse before becoming a researcher in state higher education.
Split into simpler sentences: Michel Tardieu (b.1938) is a French scholar working on religious currents in Late Antiquity and in the Near and Far East. He was born in Burgundy and educated in a petit seminaire and with the Dominicans in Toulouse before becoming a researcher in state higher education.