Over 2000 years ago, Aristotle had noticed the connection between handwriting and personality, during that time the Chinese also had made the observation that there was a correlation between a person’s character and their writing. In 1622 an Italian physician and professor of philosophy at the University of Bologna had published a book that described the analysis of character by using the study of handwriting, also known as graphology. Many years later during the 1890’s Dr. Ludwig Klages of Germany applied the gestalt theory to graphology. This had advanced his theories of rhythm and “form level” and it significantly helped broaden the scope of graphology. Alfred Binet was a renowned psychologist who had founded the present method of I.Q Testing for intelligence was a supporter of handwriting analysis. During his studies he had confirmed that certain character traits are reflected in a person’s handwriting. Now even today handwriting analysis is a very important part of the study of forensics.
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Wow, can you believe that people noticed all that stuff about handwriting 2000 years ago? That sort of blows my mind :) Great job on this post, you have some really good stuff in there for the history of graphology.
ReplyDeletei wonder how many people have the 2000 years ago thing?hmm anyways good job i have that Ludwig Klages picture too :P
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