history of graphology

Three ..thousand. years .ago ..Nero .stated . that .he had .no trust for an individual whose handwriting he thought showed him .to be .treacherous..Aristotle once wrote,."Spoken words are the symbols of mental experience, and written words are.the symbols .of .spoken ..words. .Just .as .men .have .not the .same .speech sound so all men have not the same writing".

As .early .as .the .2nd .century,. .the ..Roman .historian .Suetonius .Tranquillus .stated. .that . .the .handwriting .of Augustus Caesar was .not separated sufficiently and that he was therefore mean. Ancient Chinese philosophers also used .the technique .to .make .deductions about certain calligraphers characters...The .Egyptian .kings would appoint employees after analyzing their handwriting.

In. Italy, ..the. first .known .article . .appeared .around . the 17th .century under the title 'Ideographia', .which. was followed in 1622 by a book .explaining .how to tell a person's nature by his or her handwriting by Camillo Baldo an Italian .doctor of medicine and philosophy (and professor at the University of Bologna) in Capri. This was followed by .work .in.France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, England and America.

Abby .Michon of Paris first used the word "graphology". .The word is taken from the Greek word "graph" meaning "writing" and ."ology" .meaning .Study. .Jean .Michon, .a .Frenchman, .coined .it .in .the 1870s. .His .many years of research .on handwriting analysis were first published in 1872.

The .subject .has .captured .the .attention of writers such as Balzac,. Lavater, Goethe, Edgar Allen Poe, Elizabeth Barratt Browning, and Charles Dickens. .Others who also used handwriting analysis with accuracy were George Sand, Robert Browning, Chekhov, and Albert Einstein.

Do you.know that in .Europe, .Canada .and .United .States .of .America .before .assigning .any. job in .government and corporate companies graphologists analyze handwritings and only then jobs are assigned to employees.