How long has handwriting analysis been around?
Research has found references to handwriting analysis as far back as 4500 BC, with references to it found in the third century BC in Aristotle’s perceptions about the importance of handwriting. In 99 AD, the Roman historian Suetonius studied Emperor Augustus’ personality from his handwriting. The first handwriting analysis book was published in 1622 by Camildo Baldo. Frenchman Abbe Michon coined the term ‘graphology’ in 1872 from the Greek grapho or ‘to write.’ Later, a child psychologist, Wilhelm Preyer, philosopher, Ludwig Klages, and psychiatrist, George Meyer approached it from the perspective of the ‘total individual’. Most pioneering research was performed before 1929 in Europe. The modern scientific method of analyzing individual strokes in handwriting began in 1915 by Milton Bunker.
