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.

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.

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.

Works

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