Ferdinand Seidl

Ferdinand Seidl
Born(1856-03-10)March 10, 1856
Novo Mesto, Duchy of Carniola, Austrian Empire
DiedDecember 1, 1942(1942-12-01) (aged 86)
Novo Mesto, Province of Ljubljana, Kingdom of Italy
Occupation(s)Naturalist, geographer, geologist, botanist

Ferdinand Seidl (March 10, 1856 – December 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).

References

  1. ^ Davison, Charles. 1927. The Founders of Seismology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 141.
  2. ^ 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.


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