Wolfgang Nastainczyk

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nastainczyk (1 January 1932 in Leobschütz, Oberschlesien) is a German theologian, lecturer and priest who taught at the University of Regensburg alongside Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI). He is also the cousin of another noted German theologian, Johannes Tenzler. Nastainczyk was born in 1932, the son of Josef Nastainczyk and Gertrud Tenzler and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 9 June 1957.

On 5 April 2011, Nastainczyk published a complete history of Christianity in Silesia entitled Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte. This book took Nastainczyk ten years to research and write and begins its history in the year 950AD. The book also discusses relations between Christians and Jews in the area throughout history and the impacts of Nazism, the Second World War and the Anschluß on the region.

• Religionunterrichten: Aufaben und Möglichkeiten neu gesehen, Herder, 1979, ISBN 978-3-451-18249-5
• Ehelosigkeit des Priesters in Geschichte und Gegenwart (1970)
• In Freude vor Gott Pfeiffer, 1963
• Wie die Schlesier Christen wurden, waren und sind: Ein Beitrag zur schlesischen Kulturgeschichte Schnell & Steiner, 2011, ISBN 978-3-7954-2468-8