Francis Rapp (27 June 1926 – 29 March 2020) was a French medievalist specializing in the history of Alsace[1] and medieval Germany.

[3] Breaking with forced incorporation, he joined a clandestine scouting group that gathered about twenty young people at the Mont Sainte-Odile from December 1942.

[5] Rapp graduated as a major of the agrégation d'histoire in 1952,[6] then was a teacher at the Lycée Fustel-de-Coulanges de Strasbourg between 1952 and 1953 and a resident of the Fondation Dosne-Thiers from 1956 to 1961; he was a lecturer at the faculté des lettres de Nancy from 1961 to 1972, then an assistant in medieval history at the Marc Bloch University of Strasbourg.

[1] Rapp was a member of the Consultative Committee of Universities, the Higher Council of University Bodies, the national committee of the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, the scientific council and the board of directors of the École nationale des chartes and the École française de Rome.

[8] A member of the editorial board of the review Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte and a contributor to the Encyclopédie de l'Alsace and the Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne [fr], Rapp was elected in 1993 as a member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres in the seat of Emmanuel Laroche.