Joannes Bochius, sometimes Jan Boghe or Jean Boch (1555–1609) was a civic officeholder and Neo-Latin poet in the city of Antwerp.

[1] After leaving Rome he made a tour of northern Europe, almost losing his feet to frostbite in Moscow and being attacked and left for dead by brigands in Lithuania.

After the Fall of Antwerp he was appointed secretary to the city, holding the office until his death in 1609.

[2] Bochius wrote Latin celebrations of the restoration of Habsburg authority in Antwerp by Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma and of the career of Christopher Plantin.

[4] Those of his letters preserved in the Antwerp city archive were published by Pieter Génard in the Antwerpsch archievenblad (vols.