Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 28 August 1901 | ||
Place of birth | Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 8 December 1944 | (aged 43)||
Place of death | Mauthausen, Nazi Germany | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Nagyváradi AC | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1921–1925 | CA Oradea | 53 | (18) |
Total | 53 | (18) | |
International career | |||
1922–1924 | Romania | 6 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Nicolae Hönigsberg (also known as Miklós Kinigli; [1] 28 August 1901 – 8 December 1944) was a Romanian footballer of Hungarian and Jewish ethnicity. [2] He competed in the men's tournament at the 1924 Summer Olympics. [3] Hönigsberg, which was also known at that time under the name of Kinigli, was born when Oradea was part of Austria-Hungary and played its entire career for the local football club, Club Atletic Oradea, in 53 league matches and scored 18 goals. [4]
Hönigsberg died in 1944, at the age of 43, in the Mauthausen concentration camp, during the World War II, being one of the Holocaust victims. [5]