Ferdinand Seidl (March 10, 1856December 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.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.
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).
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