Nicolae Hönigsberg / Miklós Kinigli | |
Birth Date: | 28 August 1901 |
Birth Place: | Nagyvárad, Austria-Hungary |
Death Place: | Mauthausen, Nazi Germany |
Position: | Midfielder |
Youthclubs1: | Nagyváradi AC |
Years1: | 1921–1925 |
Caps1: | 53 |
Goals1: | 18 |
Totalcaps: | 53 |
Totalgoals: | 18 |
Nationalyears1: | 1922–1924 |
Nationalcaps1: | 6 |
Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
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, who was also known at that time under the name of Kinigli, was born when Oradea was part of Austria-Hungary and played his 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]