Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle (15 September 1811, in

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, Galicia, Spain – 22 March 1863, in

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, Spain) was a Spanish politician, journalist and author of the ''

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and the

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''. He contributed to the renewal of the Galician language. As a politician, Díaz served as

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in 1856, during the reign of Queen

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, in a cabinet headed by Leopoldo O'Donnell, 1st Duke of Tetuan (by then

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). 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)

References

Sources

Biography of Nicomedes Pastor Díaz

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* , - 1811 births 1863 deaths People from Viveiro Liberal Union (Spain) politicians Foreign ministers of Spain Spanish male writers Writers from Galicia (Spain) Members of the Royal Spanish Academy Galician-language writers {{spain-diplomat-stub