Hanna Sulner

Hanna Sulner (1917 to 1999), born Hanna Fischof, was a Hungarian document analyst and handwriting expert. Born in Budapest, she studied handwriting analysis with her father from the age of sixteen, later studied criminology, and qualified to teach document examination at the University of Budapest law school. In 1944 she took over her father's work. With her husband Laszlo Sulner she was drawn into the Communist government plot against Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty and forced to forge documents in his hand; in 1949 the couple escaped to Austria and denounced the trial, exhibiting microfilm of the fabricated papers. She later settled in New York City, testified in more than a thousand cases across the United States, and wrote Disputed Documents: New Methods for Examining Questioned Documents (1966). She died in Manhattan.