Harpo Marx for the name Adolph (as a child, he was routinely called "Ahdie" instead). The name change may have also happened because of the similarity between Harpo's name and Adolph Marks, a prominent show business attorney in Chicago. Urban legends stating that the name change came about during World War I due to anti-German sentiment in the US, or during World War II because of the stigma that Adolf Hitler imposed on the name, are groundless. His first screen appearance was in the film "Humor Risk" (1921), with his brothers, although according to Groucho, it was only screened once and then
Friedrich Adolph Roemer Versteinerungen des Harzgebirges" ("Fossils of the Harz Mountains"; 1843). He died in Clausthal. The mineral romerite commemorates his name, as does "Roemeriana", a publication issued by the Institute of Geology at the "Bergakademie" in Clausthal from 1954 to 1964. His younger brother, Carl Ferdinand von Roemer, was also a geologist. Friedrich Adolph Roemer Friedrich Adolph Roemer (15 April 1809 – 25 November 1869), German geologist, was born at Hildesheim, in the Kingdom of Westphalia. His father was a lawyer and councillor of the high court of justice. In 1845 he became professor of mineralogy and geology at Clausthal, and in