Eduard Christian Trapp (31 October, 1804 - 26 September, 1854) was a German physician, most notable as the founder of the spa baths in Homburg vor der Höhe, where he later died.
Born in 1804 in Lauterbach, he first lived in Homburg vor der Höhe between 1808 and 1817, whilst his father was court physician to the landgrave of Hesse-Homburg.
April 1817 in Darmstadt), daughter of August Konrad Hofmann, later finance minister of Hesse-Darmstadt - they had five children, including August (later an officer in the Imperial Austrian Navy) and Georg Luwig (naval officer and father of the famous Trapp family).
Eduard discovered the source of what is now the Elisabethenquelle in what is now the Kurpark and asked his chemist friend Justus von Liebig to test the water and confirm its healing properties.
He then used lectures and science publications to promote the waters and hosted tourists to the spa in his own villa on Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade, now a listed monument - some of the early ones included Prince William of Prussia and Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach in 1844.