Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz

Nicomedes Pastor Díaz y Corbelle (Viveiro, Galicia, Spain, 15 September 1811 – Madrid, Spain, 22 March 1863) was a Spanish politician, journalist and author of the Romanticism and the Rexurdimento. 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).

Works

• Poesías (1840)
• De Villahermosa a la China (1858)
• Galería de españoles célebres contemporáneos (1841-1864)

Sources

• Biography of Nicomedes Pastor Díaz (Spanish)

Political offices
Preceded by The Marquis of Sierra Bullones	Minister of State 14 July 1856 – 12 October 1856	Succeeded by The Marquis of Pidal