Jakub Ignacy Waga (26 July 1800 â 23 February 1872) was a Polish botanist, educator, and Piarist. Along with his brother Antoni Waga he published an early list of the plants of Poland.
Waga was born at Grabow near à Âomà ¼a to landowner Bernard and Agata née Gutowska. Educated at Piarist schools in Szczuczyn, à Âomà ¼a, and Warsaw, he became interested in plants through his teacher E. Andraszek. He then studied at the Royal University of Warsaw (1821âÂÂ24) and received a master's degree in zoology under Feliks Paweà  Jarocki. He also worked with Michaà  Szubert at the botanical garden. Waga then became a teacher at Piarist schools in Warsaw and Radom from 1825 and continued until his retirement to à Âomà ¼a in 1862. While teaching in various places, he explored the plants of the regions and in 1829 took part in an expedition along with Szubert and JastrzÃÂbowskiet which resulted in a large herbarium collection. He suffered from tuberculosis and began to work on a two volume work on the flora of Poland Flora Polska in collaboration with his brother Antoni. He married Kornelia Romanówna in 1833 and they had a daughter who died in infancy and a son who died in 1865. In 1851 he became an inspector at the à Âomà ¼a gymnasium. He suffered from poor health and died at his home in à Âomà ¼a. A statue of Waga was installed in the Botanical Garden in Warsaw which was destroyed in World War II and reconstructed in 1964.