Hermann Rorschach's 129th birthday remembered with a Google Doodle Today, November 8, is the 129th birthday of Rorschach, best known for his inkblot test where people are asked to say what they see, their answers revealing unconscious aspects of their personalities. Rorschach was born on November 8, 1884, in Zurich. He was known by the nickname "Klecks" meaning inkblot, to his friends, because he enjoyed making pictures out of inkblots - klecksography. He was encouraged to express himself through art by his father, an art teacher. But Rorschach could not decide between a career in art or science and eventually decided to go to medical school in Zurich. As a medical student he used his love of inkblots as a child to start to shape his career. The psychoanalyst movement was emerging and he began to show children the images to analyse their different responses and develop his theory. In 1921 he wrote a book, Psychodiagnostik, which formed the basis of the inkblot test and became successfully very quickly because of the variety of readings of behaviour the tests seem to give. However psychologists have since discredited the theory of the father of two. The Swiss Freudian psychiatrist died at the age of 37, just a year after completing his book, from peritonitis.