Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, in the third century B. C. wrote, “Spoken
words are symbols of mental experience; written words, the symbols of spoken words. Just as all men do not have the same speech sounds, neither do they all have the same writing.”
The Italians in the early 17th century were the founders of modern graphology. It is from Italy that graphology has become a recognised subject in the study of human nature and identity all over the world.
In the 19th Century France played a major role in laying foundations for the formal study of graphology.
Graphology first came to Britain in the 18th century when Gainsborough, among others, was known to have analysed handwriting, Rosa Baugham published ‘Character Indicated by Handwriting’ in 1871 and the Strand Magazine ran articles on the subject. Graphology was in commercial use by the early 1900s while eminent refugee graphologists from Europe taught in England before the Second World War. These included Dr Eric Singer, a pupil of Dr Ludwig Klages, who was the father of modern graphology’.
