Editing Rolf Singer (section)

== Career==
After receiving his Ph.D. at the [[University of Vienna]] in 1931 he worked in [[Munich]]. By 1933, however, Singer left [[Germany]] for [[Vienna]] due to the political deterioration in [[Germany]].<ref>{{cite journal |last=Muller |first=Gregory |year=1995 |title=Mycologia JOURNAL ARTICLE - Rolf Singer, 1906-1994 |journal=Mycologia |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |volume=87 |issue=1 |pages=144–147 |doi=10.1080/00275514.1995.12026514 |jstor=3760958 |editor=Taylor & Francis}}</ref> There he met his wife, Martha Singer. From [[Vienna]], Singer and his wife went to [[Barcelona, Spain]], where Singer was appointed assistant professor at the [[Autonomous University of Barcelona]]. Persecution by the Spanish authorities on behalf of the [[Germany|German]] government forced Singer to leave [[Spain]] for [[France]] in 1934. After a fellowship at the [[Museum d'Histoire Naturelle]] in [[Paris]], Singer again moved, this time to [[Leningrad]], where he was senior scientific expert at the Botanical Garden of the [[Academy of Sciences of the USSR]]. During his time at the academy, Singer made many expeditions to [[Siberia]], the [[Altai Mountains]], and [[Karelia]]. In 1941, Singer emigrated to the [[United States]]. He was offered a position at [[Harvard University]]'s [[Farlow Herbarium]] as a research associate, then as Assistant Curator, then as acting Curator following the death of Dr. David Linder. He spent a total of seven years at the Farlow. During this time, Singer also received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] for studies in [[Florida]], and taught at the [[Mountain Lake Biological Station]] of the [[University of Virginia]].

In 1948, Singer left Harvard to become professor at the [[Universidad Nacional de Tucuman]] in [[Argentina]]. Later, in 1961, Singer became professor at the [[Universidad de Buenos Aires]]. During his time in [[South America]], Singer, his wife, and his daughter Heidi collected extensively. Singer's last faculty appointment was at the [[University of Illinois at Chicago]], from 1968 to 1977.

Singer was an author (or co-author) of new fungal species, having [[species description|formally described]] 2260 in his career.<ref name="Lücking 2020">{{cite journal |authorlink=Robert Lücking |last=Lücking |first=Robert |title=Three challenges to contemporaneous taxonomy from a licheno-mycological perspective |journal=Megataxa |volume=1 |issue=1 |year=2020 |doi=10.11646/megataxa.1.1.16 |pages=78–103 [85]}}</ref> He was also a prolific writer, with more than 400 publications to his name.