Carl Ochsenius

Carl Christian Ochsenius (9 March 1830 – 9 December 1906) was a German geologist and mining engineer who worked extensively in South America.

Educated at the Gymnasium he joined the Polytechnic to study mining and geology.

Recommended by Robert Bunsen, he joined an expedition to Chile in 1851 with Rudolf Amandus Philippi and stayed on there to study mineral deposits.

He settled in Marburg from 1871 and married Luise, Rau von Holzhausen in 1879.

His major work was Die Bildung der Steinsalzlager und ihrer Mutterlaugensalze (1877) in which he suggested that salt deposits were formed in lagoons separated from the ocean by bars.