Wolfgang Nastainczyk

Who is Wolfgang Nastainczyk?

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nastainczyk is a German theologian, lecturer and priest who taught at the University of Regensburg alongside Joseph Ratzinger. 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 June 9, 1957.

On April 5 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.