Interest in handwriting were not first recorded until around 330 B.C, when Aristotle noted that handwriting was related to personality:

Aristotole

Speech is the expression of ideas, thoughts or desires. Handwriting is the visible form of speech. Somewhere in handwriting is an expression of the emotions underlying the writer’s thoughts, ideas, or desires. (Aristotle)

In the year of 1621 the first published work of handwrriting was found writen by an italian docter by the name of, Camillo Baldi, his tretise was writen on handwriting and character.Baldi thought handwriting was a manifestation of the writer’s temperament, personality and character.

In the late 1842 the French monk Jean Hippolyte Michon (considered to be the grandfather of modern graphology) spent years investigating thousands of samples and published a catalog on graphological signs. He coined the term “graphologie” and founded the Societe de Graphologie, which is still one of the leading institutions for the study of graphology at the university level.

In 1888, Jules-Crepieux Jamin (France) was Michon’s successor and disciple and published a study on how handwriting traits (how and what you write) influence interpretation of writing.

In 1895, the Physiology Professor Dr. Wilhelm T. Preyer (Germany) related graphic movement (writing) to mental processes. He was the first to coin the term “brain writing.”

In 1904, the psychologist Alfred Binet (France) affirmed the reliability of handwriting analysis in a published study and later developed the first standardized IQ test.

In 1910, the German Psychologist and Philosopher, Dr. Luddwig Klages, formulated a theory that handwritng had a general common rhythm as did walking and facial expressions.

In 1934, the Psychologist Dr. Max Pulver (Switzerland) showed how conscious and unconscious drives are indicated in handwriting.

It was in the early 1900’s that the American newspaperwoman, Louise Rice, brought Graphology to the United States upon her return to the United States after a European assignment. Today, Graphology is on the rise in the United States, Italy, Spain, Hungary, Poland, Iceland, Great Britain and Russia.