Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle (15 September 1811, in Viveiro, Galicia, Spain – 22 March 1863, in Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish politician, journalist and author of the Romanticism and the Rexurdimento. He contributed to the renewal of the Galician language.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Corbelle.
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Nicomedes Pastor Díaz
Born
Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle

(1811-09-15)15 September 1811
Viveiro, Spain
Died22 March 1863(1863-03-22) (aged 51)
Madrid, Spain
Seat k of the Real Academia Española
In office
7 November 1847 – 22 March 1863
Preceded bySeat established
Succeeded byIsaac Núñez de Arenas

As a politician, Díaz served as Minister of State in 1856, during the reign of Queen Isabella II of Spain, in a cabinet headed by Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan (by then Count of Lucena).

Díaz was elected to seat k of the Real Academia Española, he took up his seat on 7 November 1847.[1]

He was both a Liberal and a Catholic, belonging to the left-wing of the Moderados. In 1863, as a member of the Liberal Union, he gave a speech on the necessity of reconciling Catholicism with Liberalism.[2]

Works
  • Alborada (1828) (in Galician language)
  • Poesías (1840)
  • De Villahermosa a la China (1858)
  • Galería de españoles célebres contemporáneos (1841-1864)

References
  1. "Nicomedes Pastor Díaz - letra k". Real Academia Española (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2023.
  2. Algueró, Felipe-José de Vicente (2012). El catolicismo liberal en España. Encuentro. pp. 138–140.

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