Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y 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). 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 External links |- 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