Ferdinand Seidl

{{Short description|Slovenian naturalist and geologist (1856-1942)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Ferdinand Seidl

| image = Ferdinand Seidl 1931.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1856|03|10}}

| birth_place = Novo Mesto, Duchy of Carniola, Austrian Empire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1942|12|01|1856|03|10}}

| death_place = Novo Mesto, Province of Ljubljana, Kingdom of Italy

| occupation = Naturalist, geographer, geologist, botanist

}}

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

Seidl is considered the founder of Slovenian geology and geological terminology.Davison, Charles. 1927. The Founders of Seismology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 141.[http://www.slovenska-biografija.si/oseba/sbi557022/ Slovenska biografija: Ferdo Seidl.]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.

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