Ferdinand Seidl Explained

Ferdinand Seidl
Birth Date:	10 March 1856
Birth Place:	Novo Mesto, Duchy of Carniola, Austrian Empire
Death Place:	Novo Mesto, Province of Ljubljana, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation:	Naturalist, geographer, geologist, botanist

Ferdinand Seidl (March 10, 1856December 1, 1942) was a Slovenian naturalist and geologist.

Seidl is considered the founder of Slovenian geology and geological terminology.^{[1] [2] [3]}

He died in his native Novo Mesto, where a street bears his name (Seidlova ulica).

Notes and References

1. Davison, Charles. 1927. The Founders of Seismology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 141.
2. http://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi557022/ Slovenska biografija: Ferdo Seidl.
3. Coen, Deborah R. 2012. Fault Lines and Borderlands: Earthquake Science in Imperial Austria. In Mitchell G. Ash & Jan Surman (eds.), The Nationalization of Scientific Knowledge in the Habsburg Empire, 1848–1918, pp. 157–182. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 174.