 After serving briefly as a professor at the college in Haguenau, he was assigned to missionary work in the New World.He went by way of Genoa and Cadiz to Veracruz, Mexico City, and finally Baja California in 1749-1751.Baegert's travels across Europe as well as his experiences in Mexico and Baja California were described in ten letters he wrote to his family (Baegert 1777, 1982).