Joannes Bochius

Joannes Bochius

An illustration from Bochius's Descriptio publicae gratulationis (1595), engraved by Pieter van der Borcht the Elder
Native name Jan Boghe
Born (1555-07-01)July 1, 1555
Brussels
Died January 9, 1609(1609-01-09) (aged 53)
Antwerp
Resting place Cathedral of Our Lady (Antwerp)
Pen name I.B.
Occupation secretary to the city of Antwerp
Language new Latin
Education law
Alma mater Leuven University
Period 1587–1609
Genres festival book, psalm paraphrase, panegyric, epigram
Literary movement Northern Humanism
Notable works Descriptio publicae gratulationis (1595), Historica narratio profectionis et inaugurationis (1602)
Children Joannes-Ascanius

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

Life

Born in Brussels in 1555, Bochius studied law at Leuven University and then travelled to Rome, where he served in the household of the later Cardinal Radzivil and studied under Robert Bellarmine.[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]

Works

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. As secretary to the city, he compiled the festival books recording the Joyous Entry into Antwerp of Archduke Ernest of Austria in 1594 (published 1595) and of the sovereign Archdukes Albert and Isabella in 1599 (published 1602).[3] He also produced numerous commendatory verses and epigrams for books by other authors and for prints (collected and published in Cologne after his death) and verse paraphrases of the Psalms of David (partially published posthumously).[4]

Those of his letters preserved in the Antwerp city archive were published by Pieter Génard in the Antwerpsch archievenblad (vols. 16-17; 1890-1891).

Bibliography

References

  1. Baron de Saint-Genois, "Boch (Jean)", Biographie Nationale de Belgique, vol. 2 (Brussels, 1868), 541-544.
  2. Anna Sarrazin, "Joannes Bochius (1555-1609)", Bijdragen tot de Geschiedenis 28 (1937), 261-267.
  3. Margit Thøfner, "Marrying the City, Mothering the Country: Gender and Visual Conventions in Johannes Bochius’s Account of the Joyous Entry of the Archduke Albert and the Infanta Isabella into Antwerp", Oxford Art Journal, 22/1 (1999), 1-27.
  4. Dirk Imhoff, Joannes Bochius, in Jan Bloemendal en Chris Heesakkers, eds., Bio-bibliografie van Nederlandse Humanisten. Digital Web Centre for the History of Science in the Low Countries. Accessed 10 November 2015.

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