Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

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.

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle studied at University of Santiago de Compostela and University of Alcalá. The recorded working language is Spanish and Galician. Places of work recorded in the authority are Madrid. Positions recorded include Senator for Life of Spain and Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid. Works named in the authority record are Galería de españoles célebres contemporáneos. Distinctions recorded are Order of Charles III, Order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, Order of Christ and Order of Saint Januarius.

• Honorific Prefix — The Most Excellent • Name — Nicomedes Pastor Díaz • Birth Name — Nicomedes Pastor Díaz Corbelle • Born — 15 September 1811 • Birthplace — Viveiro, Spain • Died — 22 March 1863 • Place of death — Madrid, Spain 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.

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