Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

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

The Most Excellent Nicomedes Pastor Díaz
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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

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)

Sources

• Biography of Nicomedes Pastor Díaz (in Spanish)

External links

• Works by Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) File:Speaker Icon.svg