Complex sentence: He was privately educated by his father, the Protestant pastor of the village, entered the gymnasium at Zittau in 1816 and studied from 1823 to 1826 at the university of Leipzig.
Split into simpler sentences: He was privately educated by his father, the Protestant pastor of the village. He entered the gymnasium at Zittau in 1816 and studied from 1823 to 1826 at the University of Leipzig.