He is a professor of Celtic languages at Utrecht University and a researcher of ancient Indo-European linguistics.
[1] Born in Delft in 1963, Schrijver studied from 1981 classical philology, comparative Indo-European linguistics and Caucasian linguistics at Leiden University and obtained a PhD cum laude there in 1991 with the dissertation The Reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European Laryngeals in Latin.
He did postdoctoral research in historical Celtic linguistics as a fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences between 1992 and 1997.
[2][1] Schrijver became the chair of linguistics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1999.
Since 2005, he has been the chair of Celtic languages and culture at Utrecht University and he has been vice-dean of the Faculty of Humanities since 2015.