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He was lucky enough at once to find a post as principal of the educational institution established in his château at Marschlins by the Swiss statesman Ulysses von Salis ( 1728 – 1800 ).

The school had languished since the death of its founder and first head, Martin Planta ( 1727 – 1772 ), and von Salis hoped to revive it by reconstituting it as a " Philanthropin " under Bahrdt's management.

The experiment was a failure ; Bahrdt, never at ease under the strict discipline maintained by von Salis, resigned in 1777, and the school was closed.

At the invitation of the count of Leiningen-Dachsburg, Bahrdt now went as general superintendent to Dürkheim an der Hardt ; his luckless translation of the Testament, however, pursued him, and in 1778 he was suspended by a decision of the Court Council of the Empire.