Career
He is a former King"s College London and Oxford professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature. He is the brother of Andrew Mango. One of his major works The, details the history of the mosaics of the Hagia Sophia.
Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Center, Washington, District of Columbia, instructor, 1955-1958, lecturer, 1958-1961, associate professor, 1961-1963, professor of Byzantine archaeology, 1968-1973 University of London, King"s College, London, England, Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and of Byzantine History, Language, and Literature, 1963-1968 Oxford University, Oxford, England, Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek, 1973-1995 Visiting associate professor of Byzantine history, University of California, Berkeley, 1960-1961 Mango was born on April 14, 1928, in Istanbul, Turkey, the son of Alexander A. and Adelaide (Damonov) Mango.
He graduated from the University of Saint Andrews, Master of Arts in 1949, and from the University of Paris as a Doctor of History in 1953.