Đorđe Maletić was born at the Serbian Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire in a town Jasenovci in the Banat region (formerly known as Raška/Rascia) on the first of March 1816 (Julian Calendar).

To the former, he owes his appreciation for the great circle of ideas which had been diffused by the teachings of Hegel, Fichte, and Schelling, while to the other latter an equal admiration for his poetical inspiration and philological polemics with Vuk.

Literary critic Jovan Skerlić wrote: ".... ostaje djak nemačkih pesnika ćiji je često i rado prevodio...." He remained a student of German poets who he (Maletić) often and gladly translated.

He wrote two dramatic works -- " Apoteoza Velikom Karadjordju and Peodnica srbske slobode, ili srbski aiduci -- the former published in 1850 in Belgrade, the latter in 1863 in Karlovci.

Maletić wrote manly poems in defense of freedom, and in the diplomatic service, he played a distinguished part as one of the most vigorous and consistent of staff members.