1. Robert Saudek was a Czech-born graphologist, diplomat, and writer of novels, stories, poems and plays.
19 Facts About Robert Saudek
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Robert Saudek had considerable influence on the content and standing of graphology worldwide.
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Robert Saudek published numerous articles in many languages in periodicals as diverse as The Listener, Zeitschrift fur Menschenkenntnis and the Journal of Social Psychology.
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Robert Saudek founded the professional graphology society in the Netherlands.
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Robert Saudek started two academic periodicals: one in Dutch and the other in English.
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Robert Saudek quantified handwriting by use of a microscope, caliper, pressure board, ruler, protractor and slow-motion pictures.
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Robert Saudek attempted to deal with graphological phenomena in terms acceptable to the experimental psychologists.
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Robert Saudek was born in Kolin, Austria-Hungary on 21 April 1880.
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Robert Saudek was the son of a manufacturer of feather beds; Robert had a brother and two sisters.
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Robert Saudek was a polyglot: by the end of his life he had mastered Czech, German, Dutch, French and English.
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Robert Saudek studied a correspondence course produced by the well known German graphologist Hans Busse and was very familiar with the work of Ludwig Klages.
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In 1918 Robert Saudek entered the diplomatic service for the Czechoslovakian Government, in the Netherlands and in England.
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In 1924 Robert Saudek moved to London, where he was correspondent to the Prager Presse newspaper and established a profitable graphological practice.
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Robert Saudek supplemented his income by drawing rents from two large properties in Berlin.
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Robert Saudek gave lectures, notably one to the British Psychological Society, Medical section on 21 October 1926, which became an article.
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Robert Saudek made radio broadcasts with the BBC; one such broadcast took place on 7 September 1927.
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Robert Saudek lectured on experimental graphology at Berlin, Amsterdam, Brussels and Prague from 1926 to 1928.
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Possibly related to the book and his lecture tour initiatives, Robert Saudek was awarded a PhD in Brussels, Belgium in the same year.
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Robert Saudek's papers are in the Senate House Library, University of London.