{{One source|date=September 2025}}{{Short description|Ottoman-born Romanian biographer and essayist}} '''Sterie Diamandi''' (August 22, 1897 – June 11, 1981) was an [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]]-born [[Romania]]n biographer and [[essayist]].
He was born into an [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] family in [[Metsovo]] ({{langx|rup|Aminciu}}), a town that formed part of the [[Ottoman Empire]]'s [[Manastir Vilayet]] and is now in Greece. His father, Vasile Diamandi-Aminceanu, advocated on behalf of the Aromanians and published the 1938 study ''Românii din Peninsula Balcanică''. After attending primary school in his native town, he went to Romanian-language high schools in [[Thessaloniki]], [[Ioannina]], [[Romanian High School of Bitola|Bitola]], and [[Bucharest]]. He attended the literature and philosophy faculty of the [[University of Bucharest]], where he was president of the Macedonian students' association and graduated magna cum laude in 1922. Diamandi taught school in [[Turnu Severin]], [[Roman, Romania|Roman]], [[Iași]], and Bucharest. His contributions appeared in the Iași ''Almanahul Școlii Normale "Vasile Lupu"'', as well as in ''Gândul vremii'', ''Minerva'', and ''Vremea școlii''. His first publication, the 1923 study ''Contribuția aromânilor în literatura neogreacă'', was published in ''Peninsula Balcanică'' magazine. His first book was ''Galeria oamenilor politici'' (1935), followed by ''Eroii revoluției ruse'' (1937), ''Galeria dictatorilor'' (1938), ''Oameni și aspecte din istoria aromânilor'' (1940), ''Fiul lui Dumnezeu – Fiul Omului'' (vol. I-III, 1942-1943), and ''Arca lui Noe''. Together with several other authors, he wrote an ''Abecedar'' ([[Primer (textbook)|primer]]) in 1932.<ref name="sasu">Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 486. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. {{ISBN|973-697-758-7}}</ref>
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