Nagdilah, Samuel ben -Joseph, ha -Levi, sur- named Han-nagid (the prince or chief), a Jewish writer, was born at Cordova in 993. He was a pupil of Chajug (q. v.), and a contemporary of Ibn-Ganach (q. v.). When in 1015 rabbi Chanoch, under whose instruction he -ac- quired extensive Talmudical learning, died, R. Samuel succeeded to the chief rabbinate of Spain, with the title of prince (Nagid). Owing, however, to the intestine wars between the rival INloorish chiefs for supremacy, many inhabitants quitted Cordova, among whom was also Samuel ha-Levi, who went to IMalaga. where he kept a druggist's shop. His profound knowledge of Arabian literature and his beautiful writing brought him to the notice of Alkas ben-Alarif, prime minister of Habus ibn-:Moskan of Granada, who made him his sec- retary, and on his death-bed recommended his sovereign to be guided by him. In 1020 he was himself made prime minister, and in 1027 secured the crown to Badis, the eldest son of the deceased king, although the gran- dees had sought to place Balkin, the younger son, on the throne of his father. Nagdilah zealously cultivated po- etry and science, in which he himself excelled, and to the encouragement of which he devoted a large portion of his wealth. He collected and purchased many copies of the Talmud, Mishna, and other books, which, to dis- seminate learning, he distributed gratuitously, and he was the indefatigable patron both of Spanish and foreign authors. Besides a treatise which he wrote against Ibn-Ganach in defence of his teacher Chajug, entitled nj'^anri '^i'-i^^, he is best known as the author of a good treatise on the methodology of the Talmud, of which a condensed German translation is given by Pin- ner in his introduction to the treatise Berakuth ; he also wrote the Son of Proverbs, ibira~",a (or parables), consisting of poems which are represented as profound and magnificent, and of which some pieces are given by Dukes in his Rabbhmche Blumenlese. He is also said to have written a commentary on the Pentateuch (nn'inri h'J 'S), of which that on the Book of Num- bers alone is preserved in MSS. (Bodleian Libr. No. 152); and according to Ibn-Ezra {Yesod Mora, init. ; Moznaim, pref.) he wrote also a grammatical work consisting of twentj'^-two books, entitled ^l^"n "iSO, which Aben-Ezra praises above all similar efforts that had preceded it, but which is also lost. Nagdilah died in 1055. See Fiirst, Bibl. Jud. iii, 14 sq. ; De Rossi, Dizinnario storico degli Aufori Ebrei (Germ. transL), p. 240 sq. ; Griitz, Gesch. d. Juden, vi, 18 sq. ; Jost, Gesch. d. Judenth. u. s. Sekten, ii, 406 ; Dessauer, Gesch. d. Israeliten (Breslau, 1870), p. 289; Braunschweiger, Gesch. d. Juden in d. Roman. Staaten, p. 34 sq. ; Lindo, Hist, of the Jews in Spain, p. 49 sq. ; Finn, Sephardim, p. 174; Da Costa, Israel and the Gentiles, p. 252; Eth- eridge, Introd. to Hebr. Literature, p. 105, 247 ; Margo- liouth, Modern Judaism Investigated (Lond. 1843), p. 243 ; Steinschneider, Jezcish Literature, p. 136 ; Dukes, Rubbinische Blumetdese (Leips. 1844), p. 55, 58, 219, and his R. Sum. ha-Nagid v. s. Werke, in D'^'2l~p ?n3 (Hanover, 1853), ii, 1-40 ; Delitzsch, Zur Gesch. d. Jiid. Poesie, p. 144, 149; Munk, Samuel ha-Nagid, in his notice on Abu'l-Walid Merwan, etc. (Par. 1851), p. 90-109 ; Griitz, Blumenlese Neuhebr. Dichtungen (Bresl. 1862), p. 33; Kiimpf, Nichtandalusische Poesie Anda- lusischer Dichter (Prague, 1858), p. 157 sq. ; Sachs, Re- ligiose Poesie der Juden in Spanien (Berl. 1843), p. 216; Fiirst, Hebrew and Chaldee Lexicon, introd. p. xxviii ; Kalisch, Hebrew Grammar (Lond. 1863), ii, 24 sq. ; Kim- chi, Liber Radicum (ed. Biesenthal et Lebrecht [Berol. 1847]), p. xlvi sq. ; Cassel, Leitfaden fiir Jiid. Gesch. u. Literatur (Berl. 1872), p. 59 sq. (B. P.)
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Nag'gfe [rather iVianz/ff"] ('Sayyaiy.T.'Sayat ; comp. Sept. Nayat for Nogak, Pisb, 1 Cliron. iii, 7), one of the ancestors of Christ in the maternal line, the son of Maath (rather of Semei), and father of Esli (Luke iii, 25) ; corresponding to Nioakiah (q. v.), the son of She- maiah, and fatlicr of Elioenai in the Davidic lineage (I Cliron. iii, ii, 23). B.C. 350.
Nagot, Francois - Charles, a French ascetic writer, was born at Tours, April 19, 1734. Admitted into the congregation of the priests of Saint-Sulpice, he was sent as professor of theology to the Seminary of Nantes. lie was made superior of the house of the lloljcrtins at Paris in 17(i!>, afterwards of the small sem- inary of Saint-Sulpice. thou director of the large sem- inary. The revolution decided him, in 1791, to come to this country and settle at Baltimore, where Pius YI had just created an episcopal see, comprising at that time all the territory of the United States. At the Monumental City he succeeded in establishing a sem- inarj-, and a college which still enjoys all the privileges of a university. He retained the management of these liouses till the year 1810, when he was obliged by in- firmities to resign. He died at Baltimore, April 9, 1816. His principal writings hk, Relation de la conversion de quelqiies Pi-otestants (t791, 1794, r2mo) : — La Doctrine de VEcriture sur les miracles (Paris, 1808, 3 vols. 12mo ; a translation of an English work by George Hay) : — Vie de M. Olier, cure de Saint-Sulpice (1813, 8vo) : — in manuscript different translations of works of English piety. See Hoefer, Xouv. Bioy. Generale, s. v.