Luis María Campos

Luis María Campos (born in Buenos Aires, June 1838, died in the same city, October 1907) was an Argentine general and founder of the Argentine Escuela Superior de Guerra, which is now named after him.

He fought for the State of Buenos Aires in the Argentine Civil Wars, fighting in the battles of Cepeda, Pavón, and Cañada de Gómez.

In 1895 he left this job, to be promoted to lieutenant general and become head of the army.

During this period, he founded the Escuela Superior de Guerra, which opened in May 1900 under German colonel Alfred Arent, and led a campaign of modernization based on the Prussian-German army.

Luis María's father, Martín Teodoro Campos, had been a colonel, and his brothers Julio and Manuel also became Argentine generals.