Wenzel Benno Seidl

Wenzel Benno Seidl (sometimes spelt as Seidel; 14 September 1773 – 7 February 1842) was a Bohemian-Austrian botanist and entomologist.

He examined the flora of Bohemia and also collected insect specimens from the region.

The sedge genus Seidlia was named in his honour in 1826 by Philipp Maximilian Opiz but it is now a synonym of Scirpus.

He attended the lectures of Franz Willibald Schmidt in Prague and became interested in botany and began to examine the plants of the region.

He contributed to the Tentamen florae Bohemicae by Johann Ehrenfried Pohl.

Seidl in 1902 from a newspaper article in the Illustrirtes Wiener Extrablatt , 2 February 1902