Complex sentence: Craan was born in the Dutch East Indies when that was still a colony of the Dutch East India Company, the son of Jacobus Johannes Craan and Johanna Henriëtte Breekpot.
Split into simpler sentences: Craan was born in the Dutch East Indies, a colony of the Dutch East India Company in those day. He was the son of Jacobus Johannes Craan and Johanna Henriëtte Breekpot.