Ka cika wannan jumlar: An haife shi a Brussels a shekara ta 1555, Bochius ya yi karatun shari'a a Jami'ar Leuven sannan ya tafi Roma, inda ya yi aiki a gidan Cardinal Radzivil na baya kuma ya yi karatu a ƙarƙashin Robert Bellarmine. Bayan ya bar Roma ya yi yawon shakatawa a arewacin Turai, kusan ya rasa ƙafafunsa don daskarewa a Moscow kuma 'yan fashi sun kai masa hari kuma sun bar shi ya mutu a Lithuania. Bayan da
An nada shi sakataren birnin Antwerp, yana rike da ofishin har zuwa mutuwarsa a 1609.