The teachers had been trained abroad in Austria, Switzerland, and France and the classes were taught in Latin and German.In the summer of 1840, Matić completed his cursus of Philosophy and then a year later his Legal Studies.

The same year he moved to Belgrade joining his older brother Matej, who works as a clerk in the office of Prince Mihailo Obrenović, and entered the civil service.

On his return, he starts working as a lawyer and becomes secretary of Captain Miša Anastasijević.aMatić received a post-graduate scholarship from the government to study philosophy in Berlin and Law in Heidelberg.

His doctoral thesis was called: Dissertatio de via qua Fichtii, Schellingii, Hegeliique philosophia e speculativa investigatione Kantiana exculta sit; it addressed the question of how the philosophy of Fichte, Schelling and Hegel developed from Immanuel Kant's speculative thought.

Among his professors in Berlin were Hegel's successor Georg Andreas Gabler (1786–1853), Otto Friedrich Gruppe and Johann Karl Wilhelm Vatke.

Dimitrije Matić and Kosta Cukić were both professors at the Lyceum whose lectures captivated the imagination and spoke to the anxieties of the first self-defined liberal generation.

Dimitrije Matić and Kosta Cukić texts and lectures helped lay the theoretical foundations of Serbian liberalism as they criticized the existing political system in Serbia.

An entire generation of the future leaders of the Serbian liberal movement were their students, most notably Jevrem Grujić, Vladimir Jovanović, and Jovan Ristić.

Together with Dimitrije Crnobarac, he was sent by the Serbian government on a mission to Western countries to learn the judicial organization, and especially the procedure in civil disputes, with the aim to shorten and speed up court proceedings in Serbia.

The society was founded in November 1841 to promote the codification of the modern Serbian language, work on the issue of spelling and spread literacy and teaching throughout the country.

For four years, he was able to organize multiple reforms; opening a higher institution of learning such as Écoles normales supérieures for more advanced education, and the first training college for teachers in the Principality of Serbia, in Kragujevac in 1871.

[12] Matić assessed the audience with King Umberto I as a diplomatic success since he enjoyed all honors and was able to put forward Serbian demands.

At the new Assembly, elected on October 29, 1878, the liberals got an even more convincing majority; Dimitrije Matić became Minister of Justice in the second government of Jovan Ristić.

The peasants who worked on the Turkish private land had to continue to do so until the final solution was found [14] According to article 39 of the Berlin treaty, Muslims, who did not wish to live in Serbia, were allowed to keep their property and to rent it to other people.