He also published numerous articles in many languages in periodicals as diverse as The Listener, Zeitschrift für Menschenkenntnis and the Journal of Social Psychology.

He quantified handwriting by use of a microscope, caliper, pressure board, ruler, protractor and slow-motion pictures.

Robert Saudek was born in Kolín, Austria-Hungary (now Czech Republic) on 21 April 1880 (some sources say 1881).

In 1924 Saudek moved to London, where he was correspondent to the Prager Presse newspaper and established a profitable graphological practice.

In 1918 he authored a novel with a graphological plot, Diplomats, which was published in German, Czech, Dutch, French and Italian (1921).

In the 1920s he began the Bulletin of the Dutch Association for Scientific Graphology (Nederlands Tijdschrift Voor Graphologie.

He also gave lectures, notably one to the British Psychological Society, Medical section on 21 October 1926, which became an article (see Saudek 1927).

Possibly related to the book and his lecture tour initiatives, Saudek was awarded a PhD in Brussels, Belgium in the same year.

Born in Bohemia and having lived for some years in London, where he had numerous friends in scientific and journalistic circles."