Arvid Lindau

Arvid Vilhelm Lindau (23 July 1892 – 7 September 1958) was a Swedish

pathologist and bacteriologist born in Malmö

Lindau studied medicine at the

University of Lund and received his training in bacteriology at the University of Copenhagen and at Harvard (1931/32 as a Rockefeller scholarship holder). In 1933 he succeeded John Forssman (1868–1947) as chair of general pathology, bacteriology and general health science at Lund.^[1]

Lindau published more than forty papers on pathology,

Wasserman reaction, to name a few.^[1] At the Institute of Pathological Anatomy in Lund, he wrote an important thesis titled Studien über Kleinhirncysten. Bau, Pathogenese und Beziehungen zur Angiomatosae retinae, in which he described the relationship between cerebellar cysts and their correlation to tumors (angiomata) of the retina

.

In 1926, Lindau was the first to describe a coherent link between the retinal, cerebellar and visceral components of a disease he called "angiomatosis of the central nervous system". This disease is characterized by tumors of the retina and the brain, along with cysts of several visceral organs such as the

ophthalmologist Eugen von Hippel, and today the disease is named Von Hippel–Lindau disease

.