Intellectuals displaced from fascist Italy © Firenze University Press 2019 Stefano Esteban Montuori (formerly Goldberger) Go to personal fle In the documents of the University of Turin, where he had come at the age of 18 to study medicine, his forename is Italianized. In 1935 Stefano took an Italian surname, becoming Montuori rather than Goldberger. Born in a small town in the then Austro-Hungarian Empire, he felt Italy to be his country. But the race laws took it all away: Italian citizenship, work as a doctor, university rank and employment. He followed the example of his teacher Amedeo Herlitzka and moved to Argentina. A foreign student in Italy He was born in Bátorkeszi, in Hungary, on 4 June 1906 to Davide Goldberger and Karola Goldbergerova, the last of three brothers 1 . On the outbreak of the First World War, his family moved to Prague, where he attended school and learned to read and write in Hungarian, Czech and German. When he was 18 he enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery in Turin as a foreign student exempt from enrollment fees, taking advantage of the support provided by the Gentile reform of 1923, which had paradoxical results with the arrival of many young Jews from countries in the East 2 . Stefano’s brother Michele was already in Turin, studying engineering at the Polytechnic. In the third year of study Stefano, as a research assistant, entered the Institute of Physiology, directed by Amedeo Herlitzka. The professor engaged him, with other selected students, in the research into high-altitude 1 Anibal Péres Lloret, Lily Montuori, Esteban Montuori (1906-1995), «Revista Medicina Buenos Aires», 55, 6, 1995, pp. 726-727. At the end of the First World War Bátorkeszi became a village in Czechoslovakia and from 1993 in Slovakia. 2 RD n. 2102, 30 September 1923, Ordinamento della istruzione superiore, art. 54. On this point, see the recent study of Elisa Signori, Migrazioni forzate e strategie formative oltre i confni. Gli studenti stranieri, ebrei e non, nelle Università italiane (1900-1940) , in Anna Rita Calabrò (ed.), Disegnare, attraversare, cancellare i confni. Una prospettiva interdisciplinare , Milan, Giappichelli, 2018, pp. 184-197. 1 Link to other connected Lives on the move: Amedeo Herlitzka Rita Levi Montalcini Giuseppe Levi Aldo Mieli Rodolfo Mondolfo