Philip G. Kreyenbroek is a Dutch academic specialising in Iranian studies. Throughout his career, he has published several books and articles on the Zoroastrian, Kurdish, and Yazidi traditions.
Education
From 1966 he studied Persian, Arabic and Turkish at the University of Amsterdam from where he obtained a BSc in 1970. He transferred to the University of Utrecht, from where he received an MSc Iranian studies in 1972. In 1982, he obtained a Doctorate from the University of Leyden with a thesis on the Sraoša in the Zoroastrian Tradition. == Academic career ==
Academic career
From 1973 he lectured on Iranian studies at Utrecht University. His research at the SOAS focused on the oral traditions of the Iranian languages and to organize such studies, he founded the Society for Iranian Oral Studies (SIOS). According to his own account given in his farewell interview from the university, he has seriously studied 34 languages. == See also ==