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.

Lindau published more than forty papers on pathology, neurology, and bacteriology. In the latter field, he was involved with issues such as bovine tuberculosis, Boeck's sarcoid and Wasserman reaction, to name a few.