in 1922, after receiving his baccalaureate, he enrolled in the university of pavia, italy, as a foreign student. from 1923 to 1925, feider attended histology and pathology classes of the famous professor camillo golgi, the scientist-physician who discovered the golgi apparatus, the golgi tendon organ and the golgi tendon reflex. unfortunately, the student feider was feeding himself poorly, and in 1925, after three years of starvation, he contracted pulmonary tuberculosis, which was still ravaging lives at the time.