Eduard Christian Trapp

Eduard Christian Trapp (born October 31, 1804 in Lauterbach ; † September 26, 1854 in Homburg before the height ) was a German physician . He founded the Heilbad Homburg vor der Höhe.

Life

Trapp was born in 1804 in the town of Lauterbach in the Vogelsberg, which belongs to Hessen-Darmstadt. After his father became bailiff of the Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg , he lived in the royal seat of Homburg vor der Höhe from 1808 to 1817. Here he settled after completing his medical studies, which had also taken him to Paris and Vienna. He got a job as a second city and official physician and military doctor. During his studies in 1822 he became a member of the old Gießen fraternity Germania .

His marriage to Marie Hofmann, whose father August Konrad Hofmann later became Minister of Finance for Hesse-Darmstadt, had five children. Of these, August, born in 1836, should be mentioned, who became a professional officer in the navy of the Austrian Empire , with whom the Landgraviate of Hessen-Homburg had a variety of relationships. He was raised to hereditary nobility in 1876. His son Georg Ludwig von Trapp, who also became a naval officer and later father of the famous Trapp family , became even better known .

Eduard Christian Trapp took the decisive steps for the development of Homburg into a spa. He found today's Elisabethenquelle again in what is now the spa gardens and arranged for his friend, the chemist Justus von Liebig , to examine the water and confirm its healing power over the long term. He then campaigned with scientific publications and lecture tours to publicize the success of the Homburg cure. He even took in spa guests for treatment in his villa, including ruling princes and their relatives. One of the first was the wife of the later Emperor Wilhelm I , Augusta von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach , who lived here in 1844.

Trapp found - in addition to critical voices - predominantly recognition in the city, which made him an honorary citizen . The landgrave also made him his personal physician. But on September 26, 1854, he died unexpectedly at the age of 49. His grave is in the reformed cemetery in Bad Homburg. His villa on Kaiser-Friedrich-Promenade is a listed building.

literature

• Gerta Walsh: Big names in Bad Homburg . Frankfurt a. M. 1997.
• Gerta Walsh: Bad Homburg facades . Frankfurt a. M. 2002.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Wentzcke : Fraternity lists. Second volume: Hans Schneider and Georg Lehnert: Gießen - The Gießener Burschenschaft 1814 to 1936. Görlitz 1942, F. Germania. No. 101.