Ferdinand Seidl (March 10, 1856December 1, 1942) was a

Slovenian Slovene or Slovenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Slovenia, a country in Central Europe * Slovene language, a South Slavic language mainly spoken in Slovenia * Slovenes, an ethno-linguistic group mainly living in Slovenia * Sl ...

naturalist, and

geologist A geologist is a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes Earth and other terrestrial planets, as well as the processes that shape them. Geologists usually study geology, earth science, or geophysics, alt ...

. Seidl is considered the founder of Slovenian geology and geological terminology.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 Novo Mesto (; sl, Novo mesto; also known by other alternative names) is a city on a bend of the Krka River in the City Municipality of Novo Mesto in southeastern Slovenia, close to the border with Croatia. The town is traditionally considered ...

, where a street bears his name (''Seidlova ulica'').

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1856 births 1942 deaths Slovenian geologists People from Novo Mesto {{Slovenia-scientist-stub