Ferdinand Seidl

Ferdinand Seidl
Born(1856-03-10)March 10, 1856
DiedDecember 1, 1942(1942-12-01) (aged 86)
OccupationsNaturalist, 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.

His wide ranging interests encompassed geology, seismology, meteorology and botany but the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake led to a focus on seismology. He was the author of the first Slovenian popular book on geology.

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.
  4. ↑ Pavlove, Rajko (1999). "Ferdinand Seidl About the Slatna Plate 70 Years Ago". Geologija. 42: 19–26. doi:10.5474/geologija.1999.002. ISSN 1854-620X. Retrieved 26 July 2025.