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.
Nicomedes Pastor Díaz | |
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| Born | Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle 15 September 1811 Viveiro, Spain |
| Died | 22 March 1863 (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 |
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)
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