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

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

  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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