Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

Spanish politician, journalist, and author (1811–1863)

The Most Excellent Nicomedes Pastor Díaz

Born	Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle (1811-09-15)15 September 1811 Viveiro, Spain
Died	22 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 by	Seat established
Succeeded by	Isaac Núñez de Arenas [es]

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.

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

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