title: Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle
text: # 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)
  